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Unionists and Confederates--crafted and protected their memories of the nation's greatest conflict

There were no large-scale fleet engagements

filling the fields just south of Frederick

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Faces of the Civil War Navies(Ronald Coddington,NH) belt pitted a remarkable cast ofby 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