Civil War Naval Actions

As the Civil War raged on the land, the two national navies— Union and Confederate —created another war on the water. The naval war was one of sudden, spectacular lightning battles as well as continual and fatal vigilance on the coasts, rivers, and seas. Civil War Naval Actions is a collection of official documents, often first-hand accounts written by the commanders and seamen who fought the ocean battles from both the Union and Confederate perspectives of the American Civil War.
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