Faces of the Civil War Navies(Ronald Coddington,NH) uniform reversing decades of misconceptions about

reversing decades of misconceptions about an amazing story of two friends that has defined the Civil War

A tale of history played out on a human scale in the grand Shaara tradition

but for everyone

2013 Jefferson Davis Award

Faces of the Civil War Navies(Ronald Coddington,NH) uniform reversing decades of misconceptions aboutby Ronald S. Coddington rchival images and biographical sketches of common sailors on both sides of the conflict reveal the human side of the Civil War. During the American Civil War, more than one hundred thousand men fought on ships at sea or on one of Americas great inland rivers. There were no large scale fleet engagements, yet the navies, particularly the Union Navy, did much to define the character of the war and affect its length. The first