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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.
Articles on Confederate Artillery
Articles about US Navy Sailing Ships
Articles about US Navy Wooden Steam Ships
Articles about US Navy Ironclads
Articles about US Navy Ships of the “New Navy” Era
Articles about Confederate Navy Ships
US Navy Operations at Charleston, South Carolina
“The Attack of the Ironclads” - The US Navy Attack on Fort Sumter, April 7th, 1863
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
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