Recommended Reading on Naval Subjects
"Grey Thunder","Southern Thunder","Southern Fire"
and "Fire and Thunder"
by R. Thomas Campbell
(A history series on the CS Navy)
"Mr. Lincoln's Navy"
by Naval Institute Press
(An account
a naval life during the Civil war- good general sailor background info)
"White Jacket"
by Herman Melville
(A semi-fictional account of the author's experience
aboard an antibellum Navy frigate)
"Man-o-War Life"
by Charles Nordhoff
(A factual account of a boy's experience
aboard an antibellum Navy Ship of the Line)
"History of the Confederate States Navy"
by J. Thomas Sharf
"U.S. Revenue Cutters during the Civil War"
by Florence Kern
(good general USRCS info)
"The Confederate Navy- a Pictorial History"
by Philip Van Doren Stern
"Memoirs of E. A. Jack- Steam Engineer, CSS Virginia"
by E. A. Jack
"History of the Famous Battle Between the Ironclad C.S.S. Virginia and the Ironclad Monitor"
by Richard Curtis, a man at the Gun
Recommended Reading on Nautical Subjects
"The Lore of Ships"
edited by Sam Svensson
(good general nautical information, heavily illustrated)
"The Visual Encyclopedia of Nautical Terms Under Sail"
by Crown Publishers
(also heavily illustrated)
by E. F. Knight
(also heavily illustrated)
"The Cruise of the Cachelot- Round the World after Sperm Whales"
by Frank T. Bullen
(An account
a sailor's cruise aboard a whaling bark- good general sailor background info)
"Two Years before the Mast"
by Richard Henry Dana
(An account
a sailor's cruise aboard a trading ship- good general sailor background info)
"The Making of a Sailor"
by Frederick Pease Harlow
(An account
a sailor's cruise aboard a windjammer- good general sailor background info)
"The Young Sea Officer's Sea Anchor"
by Darcy Lever
(good general ship rigging and operation background info)
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