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I created this so that there would be no red links on the American Civil War Menu template. I have relatively little interest in naval matters, so invite swabbies out there to jump in. Hal Jespersen 21:18, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have taken up your challenge.PKKloeppel (talk) 14:55, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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More needed on "The Institution" especially "Composition"[edit]

I am not at all equipped to provide it but the section indicated could be a lot more informative. Many might be interested in more on the racial composition, sure, but equally the sociology could be made clearer by information on regional origins of sailors, class origins, previous seafaring backgrounds, immigrant versus native born and so on. Given the navy grew from a tiny force to a temporarily huge one, I suspect it was drawing on sources beyond those of the regular navy, and could have been less biased than it toward perhaps denizens of seafaring communities and bringing in others. Comparison to the vastly larger army, which was pulling in significant numbers of all sorts of groups including Irish immigrants, would be of interest.

This kind of information is commonly of interest when discussing any military or naval service undergoing rapid wartime expansion. The present section is desperately thin. Random noter (talk) 23:13, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

we have that info on soldiers but less on sailors. The major scholarly source is Michael J. Bennett, Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War. (2004). It is online at https://www.questia.com/library/120066418/union-jacks-yankee-sailors-in-the-civil-war which is free to Wiki editors. There is a bit of info in Ronald S. Coddington, Faces of the Civil War Navies: An Album of Union and Confederate Sailors (2016) which is mostly photos of officers . On black sailors see : Steven J. Ramold, Slaves, Sailors, Citizens: African Americans in the Union Navy (2007) . Rjensen (talk) 23:32, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]