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David Smithweck
David Smithweck is a graduate of Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, and a Civil War historian. For more than fifty years, he has participated in projects such as the search an...view moreDavid Smithweck is a graduate of Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, and a Civil War historian. For more than fifty years, he has participated in projects such as the search and identification of two Confederate ironclad gunboats (CSS Huntsville and CSS Tuscaloosa) in the Mobile River, the investigation and mapping of Fort Powell in Mississippi Sound and investigations of the Civil War works at Oven Bluff and Choctaw Bluff on the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers and the Confederate obstructions in the upper Mobile Bay. He served four three-year terms on the board of directors of the Mobile History Museum and the board of directors of the Alabama Lighthouse Association and was the founder of the Alabama Gulf Coast Archaeological Society Inc. in 1977.view less
Books by David Smithweck
The USS Tecumseh in Mobile Bay: The Sinking of a Civil War Ironclad