Careers are tough on Rebel sailors

babela · First Sergeant Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 21

According to Roy Parker, life was not happy for men who, as the saying goes, “went South” in the Civil War.

Instead of sailing the rivers and seas, Confederate Navy officers spent most of the war ashore, bottled up with so many of their peers in obscure makeshift shipyards along the Gulf Coast, where working in vain to build ironclad vessels that might break the ever-tightened federal blockade that ultimately strangled the South.

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http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=280845