A Civil War Naval Booklist
1. 
Blockaders, Refugees, and Contrabands: Civil War on Florida's Gulf Coast, 1861-1865
by:
George E. Buker
4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings 2. 
Reign of Iron: The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack
by:
James L. Nelson
4.16 avg rating — 128 ratings 
4. 
Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah
by:
Tom Chaffin
3.83 avg rating — 321 ratings 5. 
Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship
by:
John Baldwin
3.79 avg rating — 360 ratings 6. 
Mississippi River Gunboats of the American Civil War 1861–65 (Osprey New Vanguard #49)
by:
Angus Konstam
3.54 avg rating — 26 ratings 7. 
From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
8. 
Success Is All That Was Expected: The South Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
9. 
Sabine Pass: The Confederacy's Thermopylae (Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series) 4.41 avg rating — 22 ratings
10. 
Now for the Contest: Coastal and Oceanic Naval Operations in the Civil War 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
11. 
Hardluck Ironclad: The Sinking and Salvage of the Cairo
by:
Edwin C. Bearss
3.93 avg rating — 56 ratings 
14. 
By Sea And By River: The Naval History of the Civil War
by:
Bern Anderson
3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings 
17. 
18. 
Under Two Flags: The American Navy in the Civil War (Bluejacket Books) 4.17 avg rating — 36 ratings
19. 
Confederate Ironclad 1861–65 (Osprey New Vanguard #41)
by:
Angus Konstam
3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings 
21. 
The Rebel Raiders: The Astonishing History of the Confederacy's Secret Navy 4.25 avg rating — 32 ratings
23. 
Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Confederate Raider CSS Alabama
by:
Stephen Fox
4.01 avg rating — 183 ratings 
25. 
Confederate Blockade Runner 1861–65 (Osprey New Vanguard #92)
by:
Angus Konstam
3.27 avg rating — 15 ratings 25. 
The Old Steam Navy: Frigates, Sloops and Gunboats, 1815-1885
by:
Donald L. Canney
4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings 
28. 
Lincoln's Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization, 1861-65
by:
Donald L. Canney
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings 
30. 
Clad in Iron: The American Civil War and the Challenge of British Naval Power
by:
Howard J. Fuller
3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings 30. 
Thunder Along the Mississippi: The River Battles That Split The Confederacy
by:
Jack D. Coombe
3.72 avg rating — 32 ratings 32. 
Gunfire Around the Gulf : The Last Major Naval Campaigns of the Civil War
by:
Jack D. Coombe
3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings 33. 
Battle Flags South: Story of the Civil War Navies on Western Waters
by:
James M. Merrill
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
35. 
Duel of the Ironclads: The Monitor Vs. the Virginia
by:
Patrick O'Brien
3.77 avg rating — 35 ratings 36. 
Lincoln's Commando: The Biography of Commander William B. Crushing, U.S. Navy (Bluejacket Books)
by:
Ralph J. Roske
4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings 37. 
Lincoln's Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut
by:
James P. Duffy
4.32 avg rating — 338 ratings 
39. 
Ironclad of the Roanoke: Gilbert Elliott's Albemarle really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
41. 
Vicksburg Is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi River
by:
William L. Shea
3.94 avg rating — 85 ratings 42. 
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44. 
Navy Gray: A Story of the Confederate Navy on the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers
by:
Maxine Turner
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 44. 
Sea of Darkness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley
by:
Brian Hicks
4.51 avg rating — 103 ratings 44. 
Iron Dawn: The Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle that Changed History
by:
Richard Snow
4.19 avg rating — 410 ratings 44. 
Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running During the Civil War
by:
Stephen R. Wise
4.08 avg rating — 37 ratings 50. 
Ironclads: An Illustrated History of Battleships from 1860 to WWI
by:
Peter Hore
3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings 
50. 
Unlike Anything That Ever Floated: The Monitor and Virginia and the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862 4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings
50. 
The Civil War on the Mississippi: Union Sailors, Gunboat Captains, and the Campaign to Control the River 3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings
54. 
Commanding Lincoln's Navy: Union Naval Leadership During the Civil War 3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings
54. 
Big Bad Ironclad! (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales, #2)
by:
Nathan Hale
4.43 avg rating — 4,195 ratings 57. 
Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine
by:
Brian Hicks
4.15 avg rating — 286 ratings 
57. 
Lincoln's Trident: The West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
61. 
Le Roy Fitch: The Civil War Career of a Union River Gunboat Commander 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
61. 
Sea Wolf of the Confederacy: The Daring Civil War Raids of Naval Lt. Charles W. Read
by:
David W. Shaw
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings 
64. 
Union River Ironclad 1861–65 (Osprey New Vanguard #56)
by:
Angus Konstam
3.62 avg rating — 26 ratings 
66. 
Sea Hawk of the Confederacy: Lt. Charles W. Read and the Confederate Navy 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
70. 
The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter: the Confederate Navy During the American Civil War
by:
Raphael Semmes
3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings 
72. 
The Lost Fleet: A Yankee Whaler's Struggle Against the Confederate Navy and Arctic Disaster
by:
Marc Songini
3.44 avg rating — 27 ratings 73. 
Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: The Mississippi Squadron (The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era)
by:
Gary D. Joiner
3.38 avg rating — 24 ratings 74. 
Gunsmoke Over the Atlantic: First Naval Actions of the Civil War
by:
Jack D. Coombe
3.36 avg rating — 14 ratings 75. 
Iron Courage: Confederate Ironclads in the War Between the States liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
75. 
The Best Station of Them All: The Savannah Squadron, 1861-1865
by:
Melton Maurice
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 77. 
Southern Thunder: Exploits of the Confederate States Navy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
78. 
Voices of the Confederate Navy: Articles, Letters, Reports and Reminiscenses really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
81. 
Hunters of the Night: Confederate Torpedo Boats in the War Between the States liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
83. 
83. 
Circle of Fire: The Story of the USS Susquehanna in the War of the Rebellion
by:
Peter Barratt
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 85. 
Ironclads and Big Guns of the Confederacy : The Journal and Letters of John M. Brooke 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
86. 
Blockade Runners and Ironclads: Naval Action in the Civil War (First Book)
by:
Wallace B. Black
3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 87. 
Duel of the Ironclads: USS Monitor and CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads 1862
by:
Angus Konstam
2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 88. 
Lewis And Clark Passed Here: New Perspectives Beyond the Adventure
by:
Rex T. Scriver
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 
90. 
Hampton Roads 1862: Clash of the Ironclads (Osprey Campaign #103)
by:
Angus Konstam
3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings 
91. 
Rebels on the Great Lakes: Confederate Naval Commando Operations Launched from Canada, 1863-1864
by:
John Bell
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings 
94. 
Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
