Book of Donmon Teith

An inside look at the Confederacy's military science and technology Loaded with previously unavailable information about the Confederate Navy's effort to supply

His copious correspondence about military and personal matters from the war yields detailed and often unexpected insights into the Confederacy's naval operation

Hampered by lack of materials, shipyards and experienced shipbuilders, even so the South managed to construct 34 iron-armored warships during the Civil War, of

Honorable Mention, Science and Technology category, John Lyman Book Awards, North American Society for Oceanic History Civil War Ironclads supplies the first co

Built in Birkenhead, England, from 1862 to 1865, the "Laird rams" were two innovative armored warships intended for service with the Confederate Navy during the