Spencer C Tucker - Blue & Gray Navies: The Civil War Afloat

SPENCER C. TUCKER retired from teaching in 2003. He was a professor at Texas Christian University for thirty years, and in the last six years he held the John Biggs Chair in Military History at the Virginia Military Institute. Dr. Tucker is the author or editor of twenty-six books on military and naval history. His books treating the naval Civil War include Arming the Fleet: U.S. Navy Ordnance in the Muzzle-loading Era, Raphael Semmes and the Alabama, The Big Guns: Civil War Siege, Seacoast and Naval Cannon (with Edwin Olmstead and Wayne Stark), Andrew Hull Foote: Civil War Admiral on Western Waters, Unconditional Surrender: The Capture of Forts Henry and Donelson, February 1862, and A Short History of the Civil War at Sea. His most recent book, published by the Naval Institute Press, is Stephen Decatur: A Life Most Bold and Daring, which won the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize for 2004. Dr. Tucker and his wife, Beverly, live in Lexington, Virginia.

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Anderson, Bern. By Sea and by River: The Naval History of the Civil War. New York: Knopf, 1962.

Ballard, Michael B. Vicksburg: The Campaign that Opened the Mississippi. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Baxter, James Phinney III. The Introduction of the Ironclad Warship. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001. [Reprint of Harvard University Press, 1933 ed.]

Bearss, Edwin C. Hardluck Ironclad: The Sinking and Salvage of the Cairo. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1966.

Bell, John. Confederate Seadog: John Taylor Wood in War and Exile. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002.

Bennett, Frank M. The Monitor and the Navy Under Steam. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900.

Boynton, Charles B. History of the Navy During the Rebellion. 2 vols. New York: D. Appleton, 186768.

Brooke, George M. Jr., ed. John M. Brooke: Naval Scientist and Educator. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1980.

. Ironclads and Big Guns of the Confederacy: The Journal and Letters of John M. Brooke. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003.

Browne, Julius Henri. Four Years in Secessia. Hartford, CT: O. D. Case, 1865; Reprint. Arno Press, 1970.

Browning, Michael J. Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Browning, Robert M. Jr. From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron During the Civil War. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1993.

. Success Is All That Was Expected: The South Atlantic Blockading Squadron During the Civil War. Dulles, VA: Brasseys, 2002.

Bulloch, James Dunwody. The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe, or How the Confederate Cruisers Were Equipped. New York: Modern Library, 2001.

Campbell, R. Thomas. Academy on the James: The Confederate Naval School. Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press, 1999.

. Fire & Thunder: Exploits of the Confederate States Navy. Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press, 1997.

. Southern Service on Land and Sea: The Wartime Journal of Robert Watson,

CSA/CSN. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002.

Canney, Donald L. Lincolns Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization, 186165. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997.

. The Old Steam Navy: Frigates, Sloops, and Gunboats, 18151885. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1990.

. The Old Steam Navy: Ironclads, 18421885. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1993.

Conrad, James Lee. Rebel Reefers: The Organization and Midshipmen of the Confederate States Naval Academy. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2003.

Cook, Adrian. The Alabama Claims: American Politics and Anglo-American Relations, 18651872. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975.

Coombe, Jack D. Gunfire Around the Gulf: The Last Major Naval Campaigns of the Civil War. New York: Bantam Books, 1999.

. Thunder Along the Mississippi: The River Battles that Split the Confederacy. New York: Sarpedon, 1996.

Coski, John M. Capital Navy: The Men, Ships and Operations of the James River Squadron. Campbell, CA: Savas Publishing, 1996.

Dalzell, George W. The Flight from the Flag: The Continuing Effect of the Civil War upon the American Carrying Trade. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1940.

Daniel, Larry J., and Lynn N. Bock. Island No. 10: Struggle for the Mississippi Valley. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996.

Davis, Charles H. Jr. Life of Charles Henry Davis, Rear Admiral, 180777. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899.

Davis, William C. Duel Between the First Ironclads. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975.

deKay, James Tertius. Monitor. New York: Walker, 1997.

Duffy, James. P. Lincolns Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut. New York: John Wiley, 1997.

Du Pont, Henry A. Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, United States Navy: A Biography. New York: National Americana Society, 1926.

Du Pont, Samuel F. Samuel F. Du Pont: A Selection from His Civil War Letters. 3 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1969.

Elliott, Robert G. Ironclad of the Roanoke: Gilbert Elliotts Albermarle. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Books, 1999.

Ferris, Norman B. The Trent Affair: A Diplomatic Crisis. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1977.

Fox, Gustavus. Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 18611865. Eds. Robert Means Thompson and Richard Wainwright. New York: De Vinne Press, 1918.

Friend, Jack.