A Selectively Annotated Bibliography of Naval Power in the American Civil War

A Selectively Annotated Bibliography of Naval Power in the American Civil War Paolo E. Coletta Finding Aids Aimone, Alan Conrad, and Barbara Aimone. A User's Guide to the Official Records of the Civil War. Shippensburg, Pa.: White Mane, 1993. 125 pp., illus., maps. American Heritage Battle Maps ofthe Civil War. Tulsa: Council Oaks Books, 1992. 176 pp. Atlas to Accompany the Official Records ofthe Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1989. Beers, Henry P. Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States ofAmerica. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1968. For the Navy Department see 337-87· Boatner, Mark May LTI, with assistance of Allen C. Northrop and Lowell I. Miller. The Civil War Dictionary. Rev. ed. New York: David McKay, 1988. 974 pp., illus., maps. Bosse, David. CiVi/ WarNewspaperMaps: A HistoricalAtlas. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1993. 162 pp. Maps from contemporary newspapers. Cole, Garold L. Civil War Eyewitnesses: Annotated Bibliography ofBooL· and Articles, 1955-1987. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1989. 351 pp. An analytical list of guides to Civil War personal narratives published in the last thirty years. Current, Richard, ed. Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. 4 vols. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. 1,474 articles. Faust, Patricia L. Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War. New York: Harper and Row, 1986. 850 pp., illus. Some 2,200 concise cross-referenced entries. Civil War History, Vol. XLii. No. 1 © 1996 by The Kent State University Press BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NAVAL POWER33 Howard, Blair. Battlefields of the Civil War: A Guide for Travelers. Edison, N.J.: Hunter Publications, 1994. 320 pp., illus. Katcher, Philip. R. N. The Civil War Source Book. New York: Facts on File, 1992. 318 pp., illus., maps. Mugridge, Donald H., comp. TheAmerican Civil War: A SelectedReading List. Washington, D.C.: Library ofCongress, i960. Munden, Kenneth. W, and Henry Putney Beers. Guide to Federal Archives Retoting to the Civil War. Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1962. 721 pp. Nevins, Allan, James I. Robertson, and Bell I. Wiley, eds. Civil War Books: A Critical Bibliography. Baton Rouge: Louisana State Univ. Press, 1967-69. Simmons, Henry E., comp. A Concise Encyclopedia of the Civil War. New York: Barnes, 1967. 221 pp. Smith, Myron J., Jr. American Civil War Navies: A Bibliography. Vol. 3. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1972. Stephenson, Richard W, comp. Civil War Maps: An Annotated List ofMaps andAtlases in the Library ofCongress. 2d ed. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1989. 410 pp. Books Abell, Sam. The Civil War: An Aerial Portrait. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomasson Grant, 1990. Adams, Charles Francis, Jr. Charles Francis Adams. Boston: Houghton Mifflin , 1900. 426 pp., illus. Biography of the son of J. Q. Adams, a key U.S. representative to Great Britain during the Civil War. Adams, William H. D. Farragut and Other Great Commanders: A Series of Naval Biographies. London: Routledge, ca. 1880. 465 pp., illus. Allin, Lawrence C. The United States Naval Institute: Intellectual Forum ofthe New Navy, 1873-1899. Manhattan, Kans.: Military Affairs/Aerospace Historian , 1978. Ammen, Daniel. The Navy in the Civil War: The Atlantic Coast. New York: Scribner, 1883. 273 pp., maps. For the other two volumes in this series, see Manan, Alfred T, and Soley, James R. ---------. The Old Navy, and the New . . . Philadelphia.: J. B. Lippincott, 1891. 553 PPAnderson , Bern. By Sea and by River: The Naval History ofthe Civil War. New York: Knopf, 1962. 303 pp., illus. Barnes, James. David G. Farragut. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1899. ---------. Midshipman Farragut . . . Young Heroes of Our Navy. New York: Appleton, 1896. Barnes, James J., and Patience P. Barnes, eds. Private and Confidential Letters from British Ministers in Washington to the Foreign Secretaries in London, 34CIVIL WAR HISTORY 1844-1867. Cranbury, N.J.: Susquehanna Univ. Press, 1993. 475 pp. Includes the crisis over British intervention in the Civil War. Barrett, Edward. Gunnery Instructions. Simplifiedfor the Volunteer Officers of the U.S. Navy ... 3d ed. New York: Van Nostrand, 1863. 88 pp., illus. Batty, Peter, and Peter Parish. The Divided Union: The Story ofthe GreatAmerican War, 1861-1865. Topsfield, Mass.: Salem House. 224 pp., illus., maps. Bennett, Frank M. The Monitor and the Navy under Steam. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. 369...