Tag: Civil War Navy
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Ratings Focus: “Ordinary Seamen” & “Seamen”
Our last Ratings Focus post looked at the lowest adult rank on board Civil War vessels, that of “Landsman” (you can read that here). For this installment, we are taking a look at the backgrounds, roles and responsibilities of Ordinary Seamen and Seamen, vital positions within wartime crews, and ones that indicated a sailor who…
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Finding Finns: Revealing the Untold Story of Finnish Mariners in the American Civil War
With the help of our Citizen Scientists, Civil War Bluejackets is setting out to reveal new insights into the life of the common U.S. sailor during the American Civil War. The project blog has already examined the experiences of some African American, Irish, British and native-born white American sailors- representatives of the groups who made…
The Civil War Bluejackets Project 