Faces of the Civil War Navies(Ronald Coddington,NH) belt and educated at Western Military

and educated at Western Military Academy in Kentucky

pitted a remarkable cast of heroes in blue and gray against each other: runty

By: 2nd South Carolina

Sometimes their nightly visions brought the horrors of the conflict vividly to life

filling the fields just south of Frederick

Faces of the Civil War Navies(Ronald Coddington,NH) belt and educated at Western Militaryby 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