Based on Official Records, personal diaries and journals, memoirs, periodicals, newspapers, and the actual logbooks of the gunboats that took part, this collection of unusual, unknown, "almost lost" episodes from the U.S. Navy's Civil War have waited 150 years to be told

 These are not the big battles of the great squadrons--no Mobile Bay or Head of Passes, Monitor vs Virginia or Battle of Vicksburg. This is history that took place between the major events.

This is not the Navy you think you know . . .

Reviews:

“This book will make a tremendous contribution to naval literature and the understanding of the Navy during the Civil War. The text of these little-known events illustrates that the Navy accepted and participated in missions that went beyond the scope of the blockade. The chapters also demonstrate that the accumulative effect of the Navy’s actions certainly made a difference in the war’s outcome. The research for the manuscript is first-rate.”

Dr. R. Browning, Historian, US Coast Guard

“Chuck Veit has produced a rare gem in this collection of Civil War short histories. A must have for all students of the American Civil War, these historical vignettes are unique, naval in orientation, and add to the greater scholarship on this intensely interesting subject.”

Dr. C. P. Neimeyer,  Director, USMC History

Includes:

The First Battle of Shiloh
The Navy was there twice

The Rams at Hampton Roads
Little-known plan to sink the CSS Virginia

The Raid That Wasn’t:
The Navy Attempt
at the Petersburg Bridges
or "How the USN almost lost Monitor"

The Great Navy Cattle Drive
Yes, just what it sounds like

A Handsome Affair:
The Navy at Fort Butler
A Navy spy saves the 28th Maine

The Battle of the
Straits of Shimonoseki
Sea battle on the far side of the planet

Engagement at Deloges Bluff
Ambush of Adm. Porter

The Raid on Pitch Landing
Microcosm of the coastal war in N.C.

A Novel Naval Scout:
Grinnell Finds General Sherman
Nine-day Odyssey by a Navy landing party

How the U.S. Navy
Won the American Civil War
Heretical but true . . .