Chuck Veit

She was an odd-looking contraption, and her career was short-lived, but the Alligator has the distinction of being the U.S. Navy's first submarine.

In December 1864, Yankee Sailors and Soldiers swooped down on tiny Pitch Landing, North Carolina, and scored a victory against the Army of Northern Virgina besieged at Petersburg.

Clashing with Rebel infantry and riding hard along back roads, four Sailors carried an important dispatch to General William T. Sherman in 1865.

With some luck and a little Yankee naval ingenuity, Union gunboats on the Mississippi captured a herd of Texas longhorns bound for Confederate forces in Louisiana in the fall of ...

A museum need not be made of brick and stone. Any place dedicated to the arts can be a mouseion—a site sacred to the nine muses. Under this classical ...

A month before Union and Confederate forces fought near Shiloh Church in 1862 at places named Hornet’s Nest, the Peach Orchard, and Bloody Pond, a small naval engagement occurred near ...