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SMOKE ON THE WATER

iven the groaning bookshelves for other Civil War genres, Confederate naval historiography may be comparatively slim in its number of volumes, but many of them are quite sturdy indeed. J. Thomas Scharf’s (1887) is the (1996). More specialized works include William N. Still Jr., (1971). Discovery of the in 1995 has sparked a boomlet about the Confederate semi-submersible.

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