The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White” tells the tale of a free Black man captured during one of the Alabama’s many raids ...
Bits and pieces of information are littered throughout the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies, materials in the National Archives, collections of sailors’ letters and diaries ...
Sailor Buchanan said good-bye to his family, went to Richmond, became captain in the Confederate Navy. In March, 1862, in the reconditioned, ironclad Merrimac (rechristened the Virginia ...
it lost more Confederate crew members than enemy sailors. Over the next century, submarines changed greatly; World War II was a critical turning point in their military platform performance.
Security issues, a fence with breaks in it and a lack of a timely insurance claim are to blame for vandalism to monuments at ...