The Navies
- Civil War Navy Homepage, Thomas’s Legion
- Confederate States Navy, Museum, Library, and Research Institute. Mobile, AL
- Hampton Roads Naval Museum
- Historic Naval Ships Association
- Manual of Commands and Orders, 1945, Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC)
- John’s Nautical Links List, “The Mother of all Maritime Links,” John Kohnen
- Official Records of Union and Confederate Navies
- National Archives
- Cornell University
- Western Illinois University
- Library of Congress
- Amazon, hardcover
- Amazon, digital
- Amazon, digital, THA New Media
- Museums of the Navy, NHHC
- National Civil War Naval Museum, Columbus, GA
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, (NOAA)
- Nautical Terms and Phrases, NHHC
- U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
- United States Naval and Shipbuilding Museum, USS Salem, Quincy, MA
- Naval History and Heritage Command, (NHHC; also Naval Historical Center, NHC), U.S. Dept. of the Navy
- Naval Officer Ranks, NHHC/NHC
- Naval Enlisted Ratings, 1776-1969, NHHC/NHC
- United States Navy, official Web site
- Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, VA
- Official Records of Navies, Hampton Roads Accounts (Monitor/Merrimack), War Times Journal
- Port Columbus Civil War Naval Center (now the National Civil War Naval Museum), Columbus, GA
- Ships of Scale
- Naval Customs and Traditions, NHHC/NHC