Halls of Honor
The U.S. Navy Museum takes you on an informed and entertaining romp through one of North America s oldest and finest military museums. The museum has been in continuous operation at the Washington Navy Yard since the American Civil War DVD

USS and CSS Navy Ships and Battles
American Civil War


Raise The Alabama
She was known as "the ghost ship." During the Civil War, the CSS Alabama sailed over 75,000 miles and captured more than 60 Union vessels. But her career came to an end in June of 1864 when she was sunk by the USS Kearsarge off the coast of Northern France DVD
Confederate Naval Ships

CSS Admiral
CSS Alabama
CSS Albemarle
CSS Arkansas
CSS Atlanta
CSS Bayou City
CSS Calhoun
CSS Darlington
CSS De Soto
CSS Florida
CSS General Bragg
CSS General Sterling Price
CSS Governor Moore
H.L. Hunley - Submarine
CSS Jackson
CSS Jefferson Davis

CSS Muscogee
CSS Nashville
CSS Queen of the West
CSS Saint Patrick
CSS Savannah
CSS Selma
CSS Shenandoah
CSS Stonewall
CSS Stonewall Jackson
CSS Sumter
CSS Teaser
CSS Tennessee
CSS Texas
CSS Virginia
 CSS William Hewes

Blockade Runners
Advance
Banshee
Bat
Cherokee
Douglas
Ella and Annie

Blockade Runners
Florida
Margaret and Jessie
Robert E Lee
Thistle
Thomas L. Wragg
Wando

Union Naval Ships

USS Adela
USS Alabama
USS Argosy
USS Aries
USS Arizona
USS Aroostook
USS Augusta
USS Atlanta
USS Bainbridge
USS Bazely
USS Belle
USS Bienville
USS Calhoun
USS Cambridge
USS Catskill
USS Cayuga
USS Champion
USS Cherokee
USS Corondelet
USS Cumberland

USS Dandelion
USS Darlington
USS Dawn
USS Daylight
USS Decatur
USS De Soto
USS Diana
USS Dictator
USS Dumbarton
USS Elk
USS Ellen
USS Essex
USS Estrella
USS Eutaw
USS Fawn
USS Fern
USS Flag
USS Florida
USS Forest Rose
USS Fort Donelson

USS Fort Hindman
USS Fort Jackson
USS Frolic
USS Galena
USS General Lyon
USS General Price
USS General William Putnam
USS General Sherman
USS Genesee
USS Gettysburg
USS Glide
USS Harriet Lane
USS Hatteras
USS Hendrick Hudson
USS Housatonic
USS James Adger
USS Kearsarge
USS Malvern
USS Maratanza
USS Maria Denning
USS Metacomet

USS Miami
USS Miantonomoh
USS Monitor
USS Montauk
USS Neosho
USS Octorara
USS Onandaga
USS Osage
USS Putnam
USS Sassacus
USS Saugus
USS Shawnee
USS Southfield
USS Tecumseh
USS Tennessee
USS Varuna
USS Wabash
USS Wachusett
USS Wando
USS Weehawken
USS Westfield
USS William Brown
USS Winnebago

Naval Battles

CSS Virginia vs USS Congress
CSS Virginia vs USS Cumberland

Battle of the Ironclads USS Monitor vs CSS Virginia

Hampton Roads Virginia March 1862
Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip Mississippi Passage April 1862
Drewry's Bluff Fort Darling Naval Action May 15,1862
Fort Pillow and Memphis Tennessee May June 1862
Gun-boats Galena and Mahaska shelling the Rebels at Harrison's Landing July 2, 1862
Union Fleet Running the Rebel Blockade of the Mississippi at Vicksburg, April 16th 1863
Mobile Bay August 1864
Fort Fisher North Carolina January 1865


Ship Types

Ram
Submarines

Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December 1861 volume.
It depicts ten of the "90-Day Gunboats" constructed for the U.S. Navy in 1861-62.
Ships, as identified below the image bottom, are (from left, all USS): Chippewa , Sciota , Itasca , Winona , Huron , Ottawa , Pembina , Seneca , Unadilla and Sagamore
US Navy Civil War Gunboats


Red River Campaign, 1864
Rear Admiral Porter's fleet above the falls at Alexandria, Louisiana, awaiting the rise of the river, circa May 1864.
Ships moored along the far river bank include (from left to right): ironclad Mound City , two "City" class ironclads (either Carondelet , Louisville or Pittsburg ), transport William H. Brown , steamer Benefit , tug Dahlia and ironclad Neosho (in the distance, barely visible).
Union navy City Class Ship

CSS Nashville
Confederate naval Ship CSS Nashville
Click to enlarge ship picture


Reign of Iron: The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack
The first ironclad ships to fight each other, the Monitor and the Virginia (Merrimack), were the unique products of American design genius




War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor
The experience of the men aboard the Monitor and their reactions to the thrills and dangers that accompanied the new machine. The invention surrounded men with iron and threatened their heroism, their self-image as warriors, even their lives




Life in Mr. Lincoln's Navy
A tantalizing glimpse into the hardships endured by the naval leadership to build and recruit a fighting force. The seaman endured periods of boredom, punctuated by happy social times and terrifying bouts of battle horror

"Merchant Steamers Converted into Gun-boats."
Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December 1861 volume.
It depicts thirteen merchant steamships acquired by the U.S. Navy between April and August 1861 and subsequently converted into warships, plus the steamer Nashville (far left), which became a Confederate cruiser.
U.S. Navy ships, as identified below the image bottom, are (from left to right: Alabama , Quaker City , Santiago de Cuba (listed as "St. Jago de Cuba", Mount Vernon , Massachusetts , South Carolina , Florida , De Soto , Augusta , James Adger , Monticello , Bienville and R.R. Cuyler .
Click to enlarge

Pontoon Boat on Wheels

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Sources:
U.S. National Park Service
U.S. Library of Congress
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