Stories about the US Navy, Civil War, Seacoast Defense, and 19th Century Artillery

Articles on Naval Artillery

• “Report on Rifled Guns” 1865 US Navy Bureau of Ordnance Report

• “The Converted Eight Inch Muzzle Loading Rifle” by Lieutenant Duncan Kennedy, U.S.N.

• Aiming a Dahlgren: The Sighting Artifacts of USS Monitor

• John Dahlgren’s Heavy Smoothbores for the US Navy

Articles on Seacoast Artillery and Fortifications

• Heavy Artillery of the Confederacy in the American Civil War

Articles about US Navy Sailing Ships

• USS Constitution - A Photo Tour

• USS Constitution’s Armament: The Civil War and Beyond

• USS Constellation - A Photo Tour

Articles about US Navy Steam Ships

• The Guns of USS Kearsarge in 1894

Articles about US Navy Ships of the “New Navy” Era

• USS Olympia, Protected Cruiser of the New Navy

US Navy Operations at Charleston, South Carolina

• “The Attack of the Ironclads” - The US Navy Attack on Fort Sumter, April 7th, 1863

• What Should Admiral DuPont Have Done? Considering the April 7th, 1863 “Attack of the Ironclads” on Fort Sumter and Charleston

• Captain Percival Drayton, United States Navy

• Robert Smalls Monument and Grave in Beaufort, South Carolina

US Navy Operations of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron

• USS Commodore Barney and the James River Expedition of August, 1863

The Defense of Charleston

• The Battery at White Point Garden During the American Civil War

• The Three Gun Battery at Fort Sumter