The Confederate Navy

The Confederate Navy (First Great Britain Edition in Illustrated Dust Jacket)

A Multi-Author Illustrated Survey of the Ships, Men and Organisation of the Confederate States Navy

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: The Confederate Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization, 1861-65
• Editor: Dr William N Still, Jr
• Publisher: Conway Maritime Press, London
• Publication Date: 1997
• ISBN-13: 9780851776866
• ISBN-10: 0851776868
• Edition Details: First published in Great Britain, Conway Maritime Press, 1997. Edited by William N. Still, Jr.
• Binding: Publisher's dark blue-grey cloth boards with illustrated dust jacket.
• Physical Format: Large illustrated quarto, approximately 270 x 230 mm, 262 pages. With a map, period facsimile illustrations and photographs.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
• Exterior / Boards: The dark blue-grey cloth boards are clean, with no visible marks apart from one tiny white speck on the front board. Spine edges and corners appear sound.
• Interior: The pages are clean and bright, with no foxing, markings or stains. The binding is tight and square.
• The Dust Jacket: Present. The glossy illustrated jacket is clean and bright, with possible slight rubbing or a small nick at the head of the spine. It is protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.

Synopsis & Historical Value

The Confederate Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization, 1861-65 is a multi-author illustrated survey of the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War, edited by the maritime historian William N. Still, Jr. It covers the ships, officers, seamen and marines, shore facilities, shipbuilding, strategy and tactics, and operations, including those on the western rivers.

The volume was conceived as a companion to Donald L. Canney's Lincoln's Navy and is often paired by readers with Raimondo Luraghi's A History of the Confederate Navy. Contributors include Luraghi, Robert Holcombe, Maurice Melton, Royce Shingleton, Harold D. Langley, Norman C. Delaney, David M. Sullivan and Robert M. Browning Jr.

This is the Conway Maritime Press first British publication of 1997, with a bibliography and an introduction by the US Navy's Director of Naval History. It is a useful reference for naval historians and Civil War collectors, and a handsome large-format volume in its illustrated jacket.

Author Profile: William N. Still, Jr.

William N. Still, Jr. was a maritime historian and the first director of maritime history at East Carolina University, where he taught from 1968 to 1994 and helped create its maritime history programme.

His other notable works include Confederate Shipbuilding (1969) and Iron Afloat (1971). In 1989-1990 he served as the Secretary of the Navy's Scholar in Naval History.

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