by Maxine Turner

"This work is the most valuable one-volume source on the Confederate naval operations from Columbus to Apalachicola available. Based almost completely upon original contemporary sources. Navy Gray should stand as an academic benchmark for a long time to come."
--Choice

"...In addition to the story of the Confederate Navy, the reader gets a good idea of how the South gradually collapsed under economic pressure from the Union blockade as well as military pressure from Sherman's forces."
--The Waterways Journal

"In writing this most interesting book Maxine turner has brought to light a portion of the war rarely written about. The author weaves a tale of what life was like under the blockade using personal anecdotes from letters and journals. You can feel the furstration of the soldiers, sailors and workers as they try to overcome the handicaps and break this blockade that is slowly strangling the South."
--Confederate Veteran

Maxine Turner is Professor Emerita of Literature and Communications from Georgia Institute of Technology. She has earned a masters degree in history and English and a Ph.D. in English from Auburn University, Auburn Alabama. Since 1976, she has been a specialist in teaching technical wirting, consultant to Delta, Air New Zealand, John Portman and Associates, Rosser International Law Engineering, Ferry Hayes Interior Designs, Coca Cola, Senior member of the Society for Technical Communication; incorporated as Corporate English, Inc. She was technical advisor and writer for the Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia since the late 1950s.

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