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NAV063 Hunters of the Night.  Confederate Torpedo Boats in the War Between the States
R. Thomas Campbell
The fascinating story of the design and development of the Confederate torpedo boats and the courageous officer and men who took them into battle.  Paper.  189 pp.. $14.95
Bookguy price  $11.96

NAV054 Navy Gray.  Engineering the Confederate Navy on the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers.
Maxine Turner
"...What life was like under the blockade using personal anecdotes from letters and journals.  You can feel the frustration of the soldiers, sailors, and workers as they try to overcome the handicaps and break the blockade that was slowly strangling the South..." Confederate Veteran.  Paper.  357 pp..  
Bookguy price  $22

NAV062   Confederate Corsair.  The life of Charles W. "Savez" Read   
Robert A. Jones  
Read�s bravery and coolness in battle earned him a reputation as one of the most respected officers in the Confederate navy.  Very little has been known about him until now.  The author drew from previously unused sources to produce this biography.
Hardcover.  226 pp  $24.95. 
Bookguy price  $19.96

NAV055   Under the Blue Pennant   Gratten/Schneller  
A recently discovered memoir that reveals life above and below decks.  Written after the war by Ensign John Gratten, it gives us a glimpse of life in the North Atlantic Blockade squadron. 
Bookguy price  $34.95

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NAV054   Navy Gray. Engineering the Confederate Navy on the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers   
Maxine Turner  
Southern officers resigned their Union Navy commissions to fight for principle and soon found themselves enmeshed in construction schedules and bureaucratic delays. 
Bookguy price  $22

NAV021....Ironclads At War. The Origin of the Armored Warship 1854-1891.   
Green & Massignani
Two authors with extensive backgrounds in naval history and unparalleled access to worldwide archives place an extensive treatment of Civil War ironclads in the broader context of world naval developments.    
Bookguy price $37.96 
 
 

NAV040  Admiral David Dixon Porter  C. G. Hearn
The  firebrand hero of New Orleans, Vicksburg, and Fort Fisher, David Dixon Porter was one of the most distinguished Union admirals to fight in the Civil War--and the most controversial.
Bookguy price  $39.95

FL002   Blockaders, Refugees, and Contrabands.  Civil War on Florida's gulf coast, 1861-65   George E. Buker
The author chronicles the role of the East Gulf Blockading Squadron in creating civil strife and warfare along the west coast of Florida during the Civil War.  
Bookguy price  $29.95

NAV012  Two Years on the Alabama  
A. Sinclair
Bibliographical sketches and muster rolls.  out of print.  one copy left.
Bookguy price  $39.95

NAV037...... Confederate Navy in Europe  W. F. Spencer
Originally published in 1984, this book is the first full account of the European activities of the Confederate navy during the American Civil War.  
Bookguy price  $19.95

NAV036...... Midshipman In Gray   
R. T. Campbell
The first twenty-eight chapters of James Morris Morgan's book, Recollections of a Rebel Reefer.  Morgan was involved in many exploits during the Civil War, and his book is an intriguing and sometimes humorous look at a young midshipman's exciting adventures in the Confederate Navy.    out of print. one copy left.
Bookguy price  $29.95

NAV023...... Gray Raiders of the Sea.  How Eight Confederate Warships Destroyed the Union's High Seas Commerce    Chester G. Hearn
Eight ships, built mostly in Great Britain, devastated Union commerce and drew off the blockading Yankee squadron strangling the South's economy. 
$19.95

NAV026...... Southern Thunder.  Exploits of the Confederate States Navy    R. Thomas Campbell
The second book in the series.  Here are the stories of some of the Confederacy's most dangerous warships along with the brave men who sailed them. 
Bookguy price  $19.95
 

NAV027...... Southern Fire.  Naval Exploits of the Confederacy    R. Thomas Campbell
The third book in the series.  Here are some of the Confederacy's most important warships along with the brave men who sailed the:  the cruiser Florida, ironclads Chicora, Palmetto State. Albemarle, blockade runner Banshee, ironclad ram Stonewall.    
Bookguy price  $24.95
 

NAV024...... Ironclad Captain.  Seth Ledyard Phelphs and the U.S. Navy, 1841-64.     
Jay Slagle
Phelps was of the Old Navy and the New.  As a midshipman and junior officer he served under sail off West Africa, in the War with Mexico, and in the Mediterranean and Caribbean.  As a senior officer in the river squadrons of the Civil War he saw combat at its closest. 
Bookguy price  $35
 

NAV025   The Alabama and the Kearsarge.  The Sailor's Civil War.   William Marvel
 Working with personal papers and diaries and contemporary reports, historian William Marvel interweaves the stories of these two celebrated Civil War battleships, from their construction to their climactic encounter off Cherbourg.  Just as importantly, he illuminates the day-to-day experiences of their crews. 
 Bookguy price  $39.95

NAV020 Capital Navy. Confederate Naval Operation - James River.   J. Coski
This major new study covers the critical role played by the makeshift Confederate navy in Richmond and on Virginia's most important waterway.    
Bookguy price  $29.95

NAV017 Civil War Sea Battles.   
by E.S. Miller
Self-contained chapters examine each of the major operation challenges faced by Civil War naval commanders. 
Bookguy price  $29.95

NAV010   Confederate Navy Chief: Stephen R. Mallory.  J.T. Durkin
Through a generous use of Mallory's diary and personal letters, the author gives us a full picture of the subject's private and public life. Hardcover. 446 pp.   Out of Print.  two copies left.
Bookguy price  $39

NAV014   Hardluck Ironclad. The Sinking & Salvage of the Cairo.   Edwin c. Bearss
On Dec. 12, 1862, the Union gunboat Cairo triggered two Confederate mines on the Yazoo River. Within minutes the ironclad sank six fathoms to the muddy bottom -- this is the story of how she was located , salvaged and restored. 
Bookguy price $22.95 
 

NAV060   The Sultana Tragedy. America's Greatest maritime Disaster
J. O. Potter
More than 1,800 men, mostly Union soldiers on their way home from Confederate prison camps, died.  On board were over  2,400 passengers - six times the ship's legal capacity.  Although jubilant about the war's end, most were weakened by malnutrition and disease from their  imprisonment at Andersonville and Cahaba.  Hundreds who were not killed in the explosion drowned in the cold, swift waters of the muddy Mississippi River.  Hardcover.  300 pp.   $24.95
Bookguy price $17.46