Kenneth Stubbs
(American artist, 1907-1967)

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Kenneth Stubbs wrote and illustrated an unpublished book, Civil War on the Water:The Story of the Federal and Confederate Navies in the Civil War. The table of contents for the book is reproduced below. Previously, he had developed a storyboard for a movie on the same subject, for which a set of storyboard illustrations can be viewed.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction

  • The Civil War Starts

    1. Troubled Times
    2. Fort Sumter
    3. Comparison of North and South
    4. Introducing a Few Characters

  • The Federal Navy

    1. Northern Strategy
    2. Gideon Welles
    3. Control of the Sea
    4. The Blockade
    5. Seapower Against the Land

  • The Confederate Navy

    1. Southern Strategy
    2. Stephen R. Mallory
    3. The Privateers
    4. The Cruisers
    5. Blockade Runners
    6. Torpedoes

  • Early Actions on the Atlantic Coast

    1. Hampton Roads
    2. The Privateer SAVANNAH
    3. Hatteras Inlet
    4. Port Royal
    5. The TRENT Affair
    6. Roanoke Island

  • Early Actions in the Gulf of Mexico

    1. New Orleans
    2. The SUMTER
    3. The Ironclad MANASSAS

  • Early Actions in Virginia Waters

    1. Norfolk Navy Yard
    2. The Confederate Ironclad VIRGINIA
    3. The Federal Ironclad MONITOR
    4. The VIRGINIA Strikes!
    5. The MONITOR to the Rescue!
    6. First Battle Between Ironclads
    7. The Peninsular Campaign

  • The Inland Rivers

    1. The Mississippi River
    2. Eads Gunboats
    3. Fort Henry
    4. Fort Donelson
    5. Island No. 10
    6. Shiloh
    7. Fort Pillow
    8. Memphis

  • The New Orleans Campaign

    1. Northern Preparations
    2. Southern Defenses
    3. Preliminary Actions
    4. Farragut Strikes!
    5. New Orleans Falls

  • Preliminaries at Vicksburg

    1. Farragut Looks at Vicksburg
    2. Farragut Passes Vicksburg
    3. The ARKANSAS
    4. Recoil from Vicksburg
    5. Surprise in the Gulf

  • The Vicksburg Campaign

    1. The Problem of Vicksburg
    2. First Failure
    3. Porter and Grant Get Busy
    4. The Yazoo Pass Expedition
    5. The Steele's Bayou Expedition
    6. QUEEN OF THE WEST and INDIANOLA
    7. Farragut Blocks the Red River
    8. The Navy Clears the Way
    9. The South Is Cut in Two

  • The Charleston Campaign

    1. The Ever-present Blockade
    2. Defenses of Charleston
    3. Charleston Ironclads
    4. DuPont Gathers His Forces
    5. DuPont Tests His Monitors
    6. DuPont Fails
    7. Dahlgren Also Fails
    8. The Torpedo Boat DAVID
    9. The Submarine HUNLEY
    10. Charleston Fights On

  • Action at Savannah

    1. The Blockade at Savannah
    2. The RATTLESNAKE
    3. The ATLANTA

  • The ALBEMARLE

    1. An Ironclad Is Born
    2. ALBEMARLE Goes into Action
    3. ALBEMARLE Against Odds
    4. Cushing Prepares
    5. Cushing's Daring Raid

  • The FLORIDA

    1. Bad Beginning
    2. Better Continuation
    3. Treacherous End

  • The ALABAMA

    1. No. 290
    2. Flaming Comet
    3. End of a Search
    4. The Gallant Fight

  • The Red River Campaign

    1. First Steps
    2. Porter Advances
    3. Porter Retreats
    4. Safe At Last!

  • The Mobile Campaign

    1. Mobile Defenses
    2. Farragut Prepares
    3. Damn the Torpedoes!
    4. One Against Many

  • Last Campaigns in Virginia

    1. Naval Support on the Rivers
    2. The Last Confederate Naval Effort

  • The Wilmington Campaign

    1. Defenses of Wilmington
    2. The Blockade Again
    3. Fort Fisher Holds Out
    4. The Fall of Fort Fisher

  • The End - And After

    1. End of the Confederacy
    2. The SHENANDOAH

  • Conclusion

  • Chronological Table of Events

  • Bibliography

  • Index