On November 10, 1862, from a camp in the vicinity of Thibodaux, Louisiana, Capt. Henry Huse sat…
One evening in the spring of 1863, a detachment of Union sailors moved stealthily…
Loyal and true firemen “were always on hand at the first tap of the alarm bell,” announced one Northern…
Lieutenant Sylvanus Backus was crazy drunk. Stumbling around the quarterdeck of the Mohongo after midnight with a drawn sword, his…
Heavy cannon fire erupted at daylight on September 17, 1862, and soon after Capt. William…
Navy secretary Gideon Welles fretted about the safety of California after the outbreak of war in 1861. The…
By early January 1861, mechanic W. Thomas Morrill and other employees of the Pensacola Navy Yard in Florida were caught in a…
The sturdy paddle wheels of the Star of the West beat rhythmically against the waters of the Atlantic as…
Midshipman Frank Beville was taken prisoner during the evening of March 14, 1863. Hostile forces overpowered the 18-year-old…
