Thanks very much for the assistance. I have access and used both the O.R. for the Navies and Army and found them quite useful in painting the picture of their cooperation.

Terry, I on occasion have an opportunity to go to the National Archives and dig around. In what record groups do you find deck logs, medical logs, etc. My expertise is in Army documents and not so much in the Navy documents.

Jack, I will place your book on my “to get list.” It sounds like it will touch on some of the points of interest that I am researching.

Henry, I have the original four volumes of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War and found them useful but I will check for other Century Magazine articles that may be of utility. I will also check the other volumes referred to.

I am in the United States Army (about to get promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in three weeks) and I am in a Joint assignment and a strategic planner where I work with other services. I am originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee so I find the operations on the Cumberland and Tennessee River and the cooperation of the Navy and Army of professional interest. Those types of operations are very applicable today.

I will look through the material a little more so I can formulate more specific questions. Right now I am trying to absorb more material beyond the twelve page academic paper on riverine operations on the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers I wrote during my Master’s work.

Below is other material I have found useful.

Bacon, Benjamin W. Sinews of War: How Technology, Industry, and Transportation Won the

Civil War. Novato, California: Presidio Press, 1997.

Gibson, Charles Dana with E. Kay Gibson. Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels

Steam and Sail Employed by the Union Army, 1861-1868, Volume I. Camden, Maine: Ensign

Press, 1995.

_____. The Army’s Navy Series: Assault and Logistics Union Army Coastal and River

Operations, 1861-1866, Volume II. Camden, Maine: Ensign Press, 1995.

Govan, Gilbert E. and James W. Livingood. “Chattanooga Under Military Occupation, 1863-

1865.” The Journal of Southern History 17, no. 1 (February 1951): 23-47.

Huston, James A. The Sinews of War: Army Logistics 1775-1953. Washington, D.C.: U.S.

Government Printing Office, 1966.

Joiner, Gary D. Mr. Lincoln’s Brown Water Navy: The Mississippi Squadron. Landam,

Boulder, and New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2007.

Le Duc, William G. “The Little Steamboat that opened the “Cracker Line.”” In Battles and

Leaders of the Civil War: The Tide Shifts, Volume 3, Robert Underwood Johnson and

Clarence Clough Buel, ed. 676-678. New York : The Century Co., 1887-1888.

Taylor, George Rogers. The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860. New York: M.E. Sharpe,

Inc, 1977.

Tucker, Spencer C. “Capturing the Confederacy’s Western Waters.” Naval History 20, no. 2 (June 2006): 16-24. accessed 09 June 2008; available from http://proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.apus.edu/pqdweb?did=1035913951&sid=4&Fmt=3&clientld=62546&RQT=309&VName=PQD; Internet.

The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and

Confederate Armies. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880-1902.

Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Washington,

D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1894-1922.

Thanks again and I will be back in touch.

Respectfully,

Gerald D. Hodge, Jr.
M.A. Military History - Civil War Concentration.
War Between the States Historian
Historian: 39th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment