Article: Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War.(Book review)

Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War. By Michael J. Bennett (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xv plus 337 pp. $34.95 hb).

This book is a significant contribution to the historiography of the Civil War. Union Jacks is the first comprehensive account of ordinary Civil War sailors. Steven J. Ramold's recent book Slaves, Sailors, and Citizens reveals African-American sailors, but Bennett's book considers all sailors, white and black, and effectively compares them to soldiers. (1) He also compares Civil War sailors with the peacetime experience of Atlantic mariners, on which there is an abundant and recent literature. But the success of ...

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