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 Confederate Artillery

• Heavy Artillery of the Confederacy in the American Civil War

• The 7-Inch Army Pattern Brooke Rifle of Fort Sumter

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

• USS New Hampshire and a Powder Monkey at Port Royal

• USS Cumberland - Artifacts at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum

Articles about US Navy Wooden Steam Ships

• The Guns of USS Kearsarge in 1894

• Sunday Aboard USS Richmond in 1890

Articles about US Navy Ironclads

• USS Catskill, USS Nahant, and The Monitors in July off Charleston in 1863

• USS Roanoke - A Worthwhile Conversion?

• USS Monitor: The 11-Inch Dahlgrens of USS Monitor

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

• USS Olympia, Protected Cruiser of the New Navy

• The Drydock at Port Royal Naval Station

Articles about Confederate Navy Ships

• CSS Albemarle: The 6.4-Inch Brooke of CSS Albemarle at Norfolk

• CSS Atlanta: The Single Banded Brooke Rifles of CSS Atlanta

• CSS Alabama: The Guns of CSS Alabama

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

• Commander George Washington Rodgers, USN, and the Action of August 17th, 1863

• USS Catskill, USS Nahant, and the Monitors in July off Charleston in 1863

• Admiral Dahlgren’s Attack in Darkness - August 23rd, 1863

• Admiral Dahlgren’s Night Attack of September 1st/2nd, 1863

US Navy Operations of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron

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

• USS Shamrock and the Bombardment of Plymouth, North Carolina - October 30th, 1864

• William B. Cushing and the Destruction of the Schooner Alexander Cooper

• The US Navy Captures the Flying Battery and destroys S.S. Hebe, August 23rd, 1863

The Defense of Charleston

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

• The Three Gun Battery at Fort Sumter