Confederate Navy Stories: By the Men Who Lived Them

They were called pirates, war criminals and other unflattering things, but the officers and men of the Confederate Navy will be remembered as gentlemen warriors. The twenty navy stories in this book are told by the men who took part in developing defensive and offensive weapons. Inventors of the submerged contact mine and constructors of ironclad rams take a prominent place in these narratives.

You'll learn how Confederate raiders shut down the New England whaling industry in three years without losing a single life of prisoners or crew. You'll meet officers and sailors who volunteered for cruises that took them around the world and away from their families for years. You'll find humor and sadness, but never a dull story.

The Confederate Navy at the zenith consisted of approximately 6,000 officers and men. These are their stories, and I would be proud to have sailed with any one of them.