189 Notes United States and Confederate States vessel specifications derive from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, a Naval Historical Center online resource at www. history.navy.mil/danfs/index.html. After the first descriptive identification, most subsequent ship entries will not repeat the citation DANFS, NHC. Introduction 1. Fox, Regimental Losses, 62. 2. On dual service, see Everson, ed., “Service Afield and Afloat,” 47; Gould, ed., Diary , 188, 156; Milligan, ed., Fresh-Water Navy, 19. 3. H. Davis, Leonard Bacon, 194–97; Basler, ed., Collected Works, 7:281. 4. AG, Record, 3, 19. 5. Ringle, Life in Mr. Lincoln’s Navy, 37–39, 74–77. 6. Livingston, ed., Civil War Marine, 67; Swift, ed., “Letters from a Sailor,” 59. 7. Ringle, Life in Mr. Lincoln’s Navy, 113–20; Gould, Diary, 194; Huch, ed., “Civil War Letters,” 24; EWB to Skiddy, July 16, 1862, AAS. 8. EWB diary, Oct. 26, 1861, AAS; [Homer B. Sprague], from camp of 13th Connecticut Volunteers, to EWB, Nov. 15, 1862, AAS. 9. Davis, Leonard Bacon, 50–73; Burkhardt, Confederate Rage, chap. 1, “Emancipation and Black Soldiers.” 10. Mickley, Forty-Third Regiment, 85; Blight, ed., When This Cruel War Is Over, 316; Howe, ed., Home Letters, 252–53; Hunter, ed., One Flag One Country, 59; Romeyn, “With Colored Troops,” 14–15. 11. AG, Record, 293, 310. 12. Davis, Leonard Bacon, 178–79. 13. Kellogg, ed., Army Life, 165; Rebecca T. Bacon to Frank, Nov. 21, 1863, Bacon Family Papers, YU. 14. See Davis, Leonard Bacon, 179, for Rebecca’s reaction to father’s debt burden. 15. EWB to Kate, Aug. 1, 1862, AAS. 16. EWB to Kate, March 31, 1865, AAS; Thorpe, Fifteenth Connecticut, 201; Wash Vosburgh to Ella, Aug. 22, 1864, UM; Bowditch, “War Letters,” 424, 469. 17. Henry H. Brown diary, vol. 7, pasted letter from EWB to Acting Adjutant H. H. Brown [29th Connecticut], Oct. 29, 1864, Henry Harrison Brown Papers, ConnHS; EWB to Kate, April 26, 1864, Sept. 8, 1865, and to Father, Nov. 9, 1864. 18. EWB to Father, Aug. 11, 1864, AAS; Redkey, ed., Grand Army, 262. 19. Randall, Civil War, 51, 77; Davis, Leonard Bacon, 58–59. 20. Bennett, Union Jacks, 12; Quarles, Negro, 230. 21. For the USS Hartford, see DANFS, NHC. 22. On free blacks as better soldiers, also see Bowditch, “War Letters,” 468; Henry G. Marshall to Folks at Home, Sept. 6, 1864, Schoff Coll., UM. 23. Besides EWB’s letters and diary, other captain’s clerk accounts are Morrow, ed., Journal of Leslie G. Morrow; Osbon, Sailor of Fortune; Albert D. Bache’s diary, APS; and Scheller, ed., Under the Blue Pennant. 24. For naval strengths, see Bennett, Union Jacks, 5; Tucker, Blue & Gray Navies, 9. 25. On riverine warfare, also see Gary D. Joiner, Mr. Lincoln’s Brown Water Navy: The Mississippi Squadron (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). 26. Anderson, By Sea, 303; Tucker, Blue & Gray Navies, 361, 365. Part One. The Sailor, 1861–62 1. High Seas Hunt 1. Everson and Simpson, eds., “Far, Far from Home,” 4; Kakuske, ed., A Civil War Drama, 18; Dunlap, ed., “Your Affectionate Husband,” 3; Milligan, Fresh-Water Navy, 13, 167; Durham, ed., “‘Dear Rebecca,’” 183; Roberson, ed., Weep Not for Me, 93. 2. Elias Davis to Mother, running letter, Dec. 10–18, 1863, UNC; Wash Vosburgh to Ella, March 29, 1864, UM; J. T. Kern to Mother, J. T. Kern Papers, #2526, UNC; Weigley, Quartermaster General, 287. 3. Laas, ed., Wartime Washington, 187n5, for derisive reference to abolitionists; Davis, Leonard Bacon, 188–89. 4. G. R. Sherman, “Negro as a Soldier,” 9; Silber and Sievens, eds., Yankee Correspondence , 111, Edward F. Hall. 5. Basler, Collected Works, 4:331–32. 6. Livingston, ed., Civil War Marine, 67; Swift, “Letters,” 52, 55, 59. 7. Evans, Sailor’s Log, 65; “Anti Shoddy” to editor, New York Herald, Jan. 25, 1862, complaining about shoddy pea jackets; EWB to George, Sept. 28, 1862, AAS. 8. Swift, “Letters,” 52–53; Evans, Sailor’s Log, 61; Basile, ed., “Harry Stanley’s Mess Book,” 72–73; Gould, Diary, 110. 9. Bennett, Union Jacks, 13–15, 182–85 192–95; “Casualties: U. S. Navy,” NHC electronic ; Coleman, “A July Morning,” 6; E. W. Goble to Joseph B. Boyd, Feb. 11, 1862, Joseph B. Boyd Papers, CHS; Evans, Sailor’s Log, 67, 74–75; Bartholomew Diggins, “Recollections of the War Cruise of the U. S. Flag Ship Hartford,” handscript ms., NYPL, 264; Huch, “Civil War Letters,” 18; Gould, Diary, 121, 131, 153, 162, 164, 167...