11/4/2023 0 Comments American civil war union navyThe Civil War Bluejackets project (CWB) uses publicly available digitised ship muster rolls, which included information such as name, age, and place of birth, in innovative ways to provide a new history of these sailors in the US 'Union' Navy by focusing on the experiences of British, Irish, and African American sailors to tell us more about race, ethnicity and class in mid-nineteenth century America. The 118,000 or so Bluejackets, over 30 percent of whom were British or Irish, and c.15 percent were African American, waged war against the Confederate States, through the maintenance of a blockade along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and support of the land war effort through control of the rivers of the American interior. The story of common sailors in the United States 'Union' Navy (USN), the 'Bluejackets' (so named for their distinctive shell-jacket uniform) has been understudied in the history of the American Civil War (1861-1865).
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