150 Years Ago, Today

The Navy was very much actively involved in the US Civil War. Find out what the seven squadrons and one permanent flotilla were doing. And it wasn't just a boring blockade. Discover lost truths about what the Navy did and dispel outrageous notions that have become the "common wisdom" which relegates the Navy to uselessness in modern textbooks, but in reality saved the Union and prevented World War I from occurring 50 years earlier.