These do not represent the entire Civil War. These references were collected as part of studying the life of Catesby ap Roger Jones. See also the CSS Virginia Bibliography and the Historical Documents.
[No author] Historical sketches of U.S. and Confederate naval vessels named for Tennessee and Tennessee cities. [undated]. ca. 35 items.
Consists of historical sketches and photographs of U.S. and Confederate naval vessels named for Tennessee and major cities in Tennessee. Included is information on C.S.S. Nashville, C.S.S. Tennessee, U.S.S. Memphis, U.S.S. Nashville, and U.S.S. Tennessee. Also includes a print of the naval engagement between the U.S.S. Hartford and the C.S.S. Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 1864.
Ammen, Daniel The Atlantic Coast See Gen. Clement A Evans The Navy in the Civil War. Vol VII. Confederate Military History. Apparently originally published circa 1885.
Atteridge, W. R. "Bill" North South Naval Images. Arcadia-Craft. Arcadia, Louisiana. 1995. 50pp. paper. Drawings of models of 50 Civil War ships that the author built that are on display at the Civil War Naval Museum in Arcadia, Louisiana. (Copy at MT)
Beale, R.L.T., Brig. General History of the Ninth Virginia Cavalry,
in the War Between the States B. F. Johnson Publishing Company. Richmond, VA. 1899. 192pp. Reprinted by Edward F. Tubbs, American Fundamentalist, Amissville, VA. December 1981. (Copy at MT)
Blay, John S. The Civil War: A Pictorial Profile Bonanza Books. New York. 1958. 342pp. (Copy at MT)
Campbell, R. Thomas. Academy on the James. The Confederate Naval School. Burd Street Press. Shippensburg, PA. 1998. 283pp. (Copy at MT)
Campbell, R. Thomas. Fire & Thunder. Exploits of the Confederate States Navy. Burd Street Press. Shippensburg, PA. 1997. 294pp. (Copy at MT)
Campbell,
R. Thomas. Gray Thunder: Exploits of the
Confederate States Navy.
Burd Street Press, Shippensburg, PA. 1996. 212pp
Campbell, R. Thomas. Southern Fire: Exploits of the Confederate States Navy Burd Street Press. Shippensburg, PA. 1997. 263pp. (Copy at MT)
Campbell, R. Thomas. Southern Thunder: Exploits of the Confederate States Navy Burd Street Press. Shippensburg, PA. 1996. 198pp. (Copy at MT)
Confederate States Ordnance Bureau The Field Manual for the Use of Officers on Ordnance Duty Dean S. Thomas. Gettysburg, PA. 1984. A reprint from Ritchie & Dunnavant. Richmond, VA. 1862 with some new material. 149pp + 32 plates. (Copy at MT)
Coombe, Jack D. Gunfire Around the Gulf The Last Major Naval Campaigns of the Civil War. New York: Bantam Books. 1999. 239pp (Copy at MT)
Daniel, Larry J. and Riley W. Gunter Confederate Cannon Foundries Pioneer Press. Union City, TN. 1977. 112pp. (Copy at MT)
Dowdey, Clifford, and Louis H. Manarin, editors The Wartime Papers of Robert E. Lee Little, Brown. Boston. 1961. Reprinted by Da Capo Press, Inc. New York. 1987. 994pp.
Includes some references to the Virginia. In particular, #168 & #170. (1987 copy at MT)
Donnelly, Ralph W. "The Charlotte, North Carolina, Navy Yard, C.S.N." Civil War History, State U. of Iowa, v. 5 ( 1959.) pp. 72-78. Ed by Walton, Clyde C.
Dudley, William S. Going South: U.S. Navy Officer Resignations & Dismissals on the Eve of the Civil War. Naval Historical Foundation. Series II, Number 27. Washington D.C. 1981. 55pp. paper. (Copy at MT)
Eicher, David J. The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography University of Illinois Press. Urbana, IL. 1997. 407pp. (Copy at MT)
Evans, Gen. Clement A. The Navy in the Civil War
Two volumes of the series "Campaigns of the Civil War": Volume VII: The Blockade and the Cruisers by
The Blue and Grey Press, Secaucus, NJ, no date. Volume VII in the series "Campaigns of the Civil War" consisting of "The Blockade and the Cruisers" by James Russell Soley (257pp) and "The Atlantic Coast" by Daniel Ammen (273pp). Apparently The Blue and Grey Press version is a reprint of two volumes of a three volume set by C. Scribner's Sons (NY) version from circa 1883. (Blue and Grey Press version copy at MT)
Forrest, Douglas French Odyssey in Gray A Diary of Confederate Service, 1863-1865 Douglas French Forrest, CSN, Assistant Paymaster, C.S.S. Rappahannock.
William N. Still, Jr., Editor. Virginia State Library. Richmond, Virginia. 1979 352pp. (Copy at MT)
Grattan, John W., Acting Ensign, USN Under the Blue Pennant
or Notes of a Naval Officer 1863-1865
Robert J. Schneller, Jr., editor. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York. 1999. 239pp. (Copy at MT)
Hearn, Chester G Admiral David Dixon Porter The Civil War Years. Naval Institute Press. Annapolis, MD. 1996. 376pp. (Copy at MT)
Higgins, Josiah Parker Yeoman in Farragut's Fleet
The Civil War Diary of Josiah Parker Higgins
Edited and annotated by E. C. Herrmann. Guy Victor Publications. Carmel, California. 1999. 99pp (Copy at MT)
Hoehling, A. A. Damn the Torpedoes! John F. Blair, Publihser. Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 1989. (Also 1998 by Gramercy Books, New York). 207pp (Copy at MT; 1998 copy at MT)
Horan, James D., Editor. C.S.S. Shenandoah The Memoirs of Lieutenant Commanding James I. Waddell Crown Publishers, Inc. 1960. (Also by Bluejacket Books. Naval Institute Press. Annapolis, MD. 1996. 200pp. paper.) (1996 copy at MT)
Hunt, O.E., editor The Photographic History of The Civil War Two Volumes in One. Volume 3: Forts and Artillery; The Navies The Blue & Grey Press. Secaucus, NJ. 1987. First published 1911. (1987 copy at MT)
Hunter, Alvah F. A Year on a Monitor and the Destruction of Fort Sumter University of South Carolina Press. Columbia, SC. 1987. (1991 paperback 184pp) ( 1991 Copy at MT)
Mahan, A.T., Captain Admiral Farragut Originally published 1892. Haskel House Publishers Ltd. New York. 1968.333pp. (1968 copy at MT)
Martin, Jean "Catesby ap Roger Jones: This was the man who made the Brooke"
The Selma Times-Journal, Sunday, August 23, 1981. (Copy at MT)
Melton, Maurice. "The Selma Naval Ordnance Works". Civil War Times Illustrated, v. 14, p. 9-33. 1965. (Copy at MT)
Museum of the Confederacy A Catalogue of Uniforms in the Collection of The Museum of the Confederacy The Museum of the Confederacy. Richmond, VA. 2000. 56pp. (Copy at MT)
Myers, Robert Manson The Children of Pride A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War Yale University Press. New Haven. 1972. 1845pp. (Copy at MT)
Richardson, James D. Messages and Papers of the Confederacy Including the Diplomatic Correspondence 1861-1865. In Two Volumes. United States Publishing Company. 1905. (Volume II - 760pp)
Letter from Conf. Sec. of State Browne to Hom. James M. Mason, etc., London, describing the Battle of Hampton Roads (Vol. II, p. 200) (Vol. II copy at MT)
Riggs, David F. Embattled Shrine: Jamestown in the Civil War White Mane Publishing Company, Inc. Shippensburg, PA. 1997. 212pp (Copy at MT)
Rix, William, 1811-1892. Incidents of life in a southern city during the war : A series of 188- sketches written for the Rutland herald by a Vermont gentleman, who was for many years a prominent merchant in Mobile. -- [Rutland, Vt.?] : Printed for private distribution, [188-?] [31] p. ; 22 cm. Unionist's account of blackade running, building ironclad Tennessee, and Battle of Mobile Bay. Attributed to William Rix in Gilman, M.D. The bibliography of Vermont. American Antiquarian Society copy inscribed: L.B. Bigelow from Wm. Rix, Royalston, Vt. 1889.
Ross, Charles. Trial by Fire. Science, Technology and the Civil War. White Mane Books. Shippensburg, PA. 2000. 215pp. (Copy at MT)
Ryan, Thomas Michael The Hardships of a Confederate Industry: Catesby Jones and the Selma Naval Ordnance Works M.A. Thesis, University of South Alabama. 1998. 107pp. (Copy at MT)
Silverstone, Paul H. Civil War Navies. 1855-1883 The U.S. Navy Warship Series. Naval Institute Press. Annapolis, MD. 2000. 218pp.
"The purpose ... is to provide a single comprehensive source of definitive information on Civil War Navy vessels with ships' details and brief war records." (Copy at MT)
Sinclair, Arthur, Lieutenant, C.S.N. Two Years on the Alabama,
Classics of Naval Literature. Jack Sweetman, Series Editor. Naval Institute Press. Annapolis, MD. 1989.303pp.
With an Introduction and Notes by William N. Still, Jr. Originally published in 1895 by Lee and Shepard Publishers, Boston, Massachusetts. The author was on the Virginia during the battle with the Monitor. (Copy at MT)
Slagle, Jay Ironclad Captain; Seth Ledyard Phelps and the U.S. Navy, 1841-1864.
The Kent State University Press. Kent, OH. 1996. 449pp.
(Copy at MT)
Soley, James Russell The Blockade and the Cruisers
See Gen. Clement A Evans The Navy in the Civil War. Vol VII. Confederate Military History.
Spencer, Warren F. Raphael Semmes
The Philosophical Mariner
The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 1997. 250pp. (Copy at MT)
Stern, Philip Van Doren. Robert E. Lee: The Man and the Soldier. A Pictorial Biography.
New York: Bonanza Books., 1963. 256 pp.
Has some mention of the Virginia. (Copy at VMI)
Still, Dr. William N., Jr., editor. The Confederate Navy. The Ships, Men and Organization, 1861-65. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD. Originally published by Conway Maritime Press, London. 1997. 262pp. (Copy at MT)
Sullivan, David M. The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War -- The First Year. White Mane Publishing Company, Inc. Shippenburg, PA. 1997. 350pp. (Copy at MT)
Sullivan, David M. The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War -- The Second Year. White Mane Publishing Company, Inc. Shippenburg, PA. 1997. 373pp. (Copy at MT)
Sullivan, David M. The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War -- The Third Year. White Mane Publishing Company, Inc. Shippenburg, PA. 1998. 359pp. (Copy at MT)
Sullivan, David M. The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War -- The Final Year. White Mane Publishing Company, Inc. Shippenburg, PA. 2000. 325pp. (Copy at MT)
Tepper, Sol H. Battle for Selma No publisher listed. Copyright ca. 1988. 26 pp. (Copy at MT)
Tepper, Sol H. "Torpedoes? Damn!" Ordeal at Selma Gun Foundry and Battle of Mobile Bay [No publisher listed] 1979. 68pp. paper. (Copy at MT)
Thomas, Emory M. The Confederate Nation: 1861-8165 Harper & Row, Publishers. 1979. 384pp.
Useful in that it points to other sources in its text and bibliography. (Copy at MT)
Thompson, Kenneth E., Jr. Civil War Commodores and Admirals. A Biographical Directory of All Eighty-Eight Union and Confederate Navy Officers Who Attained Commissioned Flag Rank During the War.
The Thompson Group. Portland, ME. 2001. 207pp.
(Copy at MT)
Tucker, Spencer C.. Andrew Foote. Civil War Admiral on Western Waters. Library of Naval Biography. Naval Institute Press. Annapolis, Maryland. 2000. 259pp. (Copy at MT)
Turner, Maxine. Navy Gray. A Story of the Confederate Navy on the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers. The University of Alabama Press. Tuscaloosa, AL. 1988. 357pp. (Copy at MT)
Thomas ap Catesby Jones
Anderson, Charles Roberts, editor. Journal of a cruise to the Pacific Ocean, 1842-1844, in the frigate United States. With notes on Herman Melville. With eleven water-colors from the journal of William H. Meyers.
AMS Press, New York, 1966. 143pp (Copy at lots of places, ASU)
Bradley, Udolpho Theodore The Contentious Commodore: Thomas ap Catesby Jones of the Old Navy, 1788-1858
Cornell University Ph.D. Thesis, June 1933. Available from University Microfilms. (Copy at MT)
Camp, Charles, editor Philo White's Narrative of a Cruize in the Pacific
to South America and California on the U.S. Sloop-of-War "Dale" 1841-1843.
Edited by Charles L. Camp. Old West Publishing Company, Denver, Colorado. 1965. 84pp. (Copy at MT)
Gapp, Frank W. The Commodore and the Whale The Lost Victories of Thomas ap Catesby Jones Vantage Press, Inc. New York. 1996. 193pp. (Copy at MT)
"Honors to the Brave" Southern literary messenger; devoted to every department of literature and the fine arts.
Southern literary messenger Southern and western literary messenger and review Southern and western monthly magazine and review T.W. White [etc.]. Richmond, Virginia, Vol. 7, Issue 4. April 1841. pp 316-320.
Describes presentation of swords to Roger Jones and Thomas ap Catesby Jones by the State of Virginia.
Jones, Thomas ap C. (1789-1858) Visit to Los Angeles in 1843 Introduction. by Robert J. Woods. Cole-Holmquist Press, Los Angeles, 1960. 28pp.
"This unpublished narrative ... written by an unknown author ... has been reprinted from the Daily Alta California for April 18, 1858."--p. [7] Note: "Keepsake ... prepared for the fifth Roxburghe-Zamorano joint meeting, September 17-18, 1960." (Copy at Virginia State Archives)
La Violette, Paul Estonza Sink or Be Sunk!: The Naval Battle in the Mississippi Sound That Preceded the Battle of New Orleans Annabelle Pub. Waveland, MS. March 2003. ISBN: 0967393639
See also this review.
Maxwell, Richard T., 1821-1883. Visit to Monterey in 1842. Edited by John Haskell Kemble. G. Dawson, Los Angeles. 1955. (Copy at ASU)
Pickles, Tim New Orleans 1815: Andrew Jackson Crushes the British Campaign Series 28. Osprey Publishing Ltd. London. 1993. 96pp. (Copy at MT)
Smith, Gene A. Thomas ap Catesby Jones: Commodore of Manifest Destiny Library of Naval Biography. Naval Institute Press. Annapolis, MD. 2000. (Copy at MT)
Catesby ap Roger Jones
Alabama, State of, v. Jared A. Harral
Transcript of Trial for Murder
Dallas County Circuit Court, Spring Term, 1877.
Daniel, Larry J. and Riley W. Gunter Confederate Cannon Foundaries Pioneer Press, Union City, TN. 1977 112pp.
Various tables including cannon produced at JR Anderson & Co., cannon channeled throughte Atlanta arsenal. (Copy at MT)
Dahlgren, John Adolphus Shell and Shell Guns
King & Baird, printers. Philadelphia. 1856. 436pp.
Online copy at Making of America.
On page 441, Catesby Jones is mentioned as the Executive of the Ordinance Department.
Gamble, Robert S. Sully: The Biography of a House Sully Foundation, Limited. Chantilly, VA 1973. 228pp. paper. (Copy at MT)
Hardy, John Selma: Her Institutions, and Her Men. Times Book and Job Office. Selma, AL. 1879. Reprinted by Bert Neville and Clarence DeBray. Selma, AL. 1957. 200pp. (1957 copy at MT)
Jackson, Walter M. The Story of Selma The Birmingham Printing Company. Birmingham, AL. 1954. 574pp.
Very little about the Naval Foundary, and what there is is not well researched. (Copy at MT)
Jenkins, John S. History of the War between the United States and Mexico
Derby & Miller, Auburn. 1850. 529pp. Chapter XVI involves the Ohio personnel. Also see page 487.
Johnson, Daniel Noble The Journals of Daniel Noble Johnson (1822 - 1863) United States Navy
Petersen, Mendel L. (Ed.) Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol.136, No.2. Publication 4375. Smithsonian Institution, Washington 1959. 274pp. Cloth
Comprising 'Journal of a Cruise on the Brazils on Board of the U.S.Ship Delaware, 1841 - 1842' and 'Notes by the Way While on Board the U.S.Schooner Enterprise'.
Octavo, ( 9.5 x 6.5 ins ). 274 pages, frontispiece plate and 15 others. Original fawn cloth, gilt. Catesby Jones was not on the Delaware but this would be good background material as it was in the same area as he at this time.
Jones, Judge L. H. Captain Roger Jones of London and Virginia Some of his Antecedents and Descendants Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers. Albany, NY. 1911. 442pp.
Originally published 1892 at 283pp.
Minor, Robert Dabney
Letters
At the Virginia Historical Society. Includes Prospectus, etc.
Nagel, Paul C. The Lees of Virginia Seven Generations of an American Family Oxford University Press. New York. 1990. 332pp. (Copy at MT)
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Alabama Alabama Portraits Prior to 1870
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Alabama. Gill Printing and Stationery Co., Inc. Mobile, Alabama. 1969. 417pp.
Has portraits of Catesby ap Roger Jones, his father General Roger Jones, and his mother Mary Ann Mason Page (Copy at MT)
Virginia Historical Society First Resorts: A Visit to Virginia's Springs Virginia Historical Society. Richmond, VA. 1987. 32pp. Paper. (Copy at MT)
Catesby's journal speaks of the springs visited during the 1840s.
Rose, Flavius "Early History of Catesby and Vicinity" Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol. XXIX #2, Summer 1951. pp. 177-199.
Catesby, Oklahoma, was named after Catesby ap Roger Jones.
Roger Jones
Corbin, Henry C., and Thian, Raphael P., comp. Legislative History of the General Staff of the Army of the United States . . . 1775 to 1901.
Wash, DC: GPO, 1901. 800 p. [Copy at USAMHI]
Davis, Robert C. "The Adjutant General's Department."
Coast Art Jrnl 66 (Feb 1927): pp. 99-113. [Copy at USAMHI]
Fry, James B. A Sketch of the Adjutant General's Department, U.S. Army, From 1775 to 1875 . . . .
NY: Fry, 1875. 110 p. [Copy at USAMHI]
Copy at US Army Military Institute includes handwritten copy of 2-page letter from R. Jones to Fry, dated 6 Jan 1877, concerning appointment of Jones' father as AG in 1825. Other handwritten notes attached to text.
"Honors to the Brave" Southern literary messenger; devoted to every department of literature and the fine arts.
Southern literary messenger Southern and western literary messenger and review Southern and western monthly magazine and review T.W. White [etc.]. Richmond, Virginia, Vol. 7, Issue 4. April 1841. pp 316-320.
Describes presentation of swords to Roger Jones and Thomas ap Catesby Jones by the State of Virginia.
Hughes, J. Patrick. "The Adjutant General's Office 1821-61: A Study in Administrative History."
PhD dss, Ohio State, 1977. 325 p. [Copy at USAMHI]
Ingersoll, L. D. A History of the War Department of the United States . . ..
Wash, DC: Mohun, 1879. 613 p. [Copy at USAMHI]
See Chap VI.
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Alabama Alabama Portraits Prior to 1870
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Alabama. Gill Printing and Stationery Co., Inc. Mobile, Alabama. 1969. 417pp.
Has portraits of Catesby ap Roger Jones, his father General Roger Jones, and his mother Mary Ann Mason Page (Copy at MT)
19th Century Navy
Anderson, R.C. The Rigging of Ships In the Days of the Spritsail Topmast, 1600-1720. Originially published by the Marine Research Society. Salem, MA. 1927. Republished by Dover Publications, Inc. New York. 1994. Paper. 278pp. (Copy at MT)
Ammen, Daniel, Rear-Admiral The Old Navy and the New J. B. Lippincott Company. Philadelphia. 1891. (Copy at MT)
Bockmiller, Stephen R., and Lawrence J. Bopp. USS Constellation. An Illustrated History. The Civil War History Series. Acadia Publishing. Charleston, SC. 2000. 128pp. paper. (Copy at MT)
Bradford, James C., Editor. Captains of the Old Steam Navy Makers of the American Naval Tradition 1840-1880 Naval Institute Press. Annapolis, MD. 1986. 356pp. (Copy at MT)
Chase, Owen, First Mate The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex
Edited by Iola Haverstick and Betty Shephard. Harcourt Brace and Company. San Diego. 1999. 106pp.
There is an account (by Admiral Dixon Porter) that Thomas ap Catesby Jones's ship was damaged by a whale. Herman Melville was aboard his ship years later and may have picked up the story from him when he wrote Moby Dick . This story is relevant.
Chapelle, Howard I. The History of The American Sailing Navy The Ships and Their Development W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1949. 558pp. Reprinted by Konecky & Konecky. New York. (K&K copy at MT)
Culver, Henry B. The Book of Old Ships From Egyptian Galleys to Clipper Ships Doubleday, Page and Company. 1924. Republished in the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. Dover Publications, Inc. New York. 1992. 235pp. Paper. (Copy at MT)
de Kay, James Tertius Chronicles of the Frigate Macedonian 1809-1922 W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1995. 336pp. (Copy at MT)
Long, David Sailor-Diplomat A Biography of Commodore James Biddle 1783-1848. Northeastern University Press. Boston. 1983. 312pp. (Copy at MT)
Nordhoff, Charles Man-of-War Life A Boy's Experience in the United States Navy, During a Voyage Around the World in a Ship-of-the-line. Dodd, Mead, and Company. 1855. Reprinted in The Classics of Naval Literature series. Naval Institute Press. Annapolis, MD. 1985. 290pp. (1985 copy at MT)
Pearson, Lee M.
"The "Princeton" and the "Peacemaker": A Study in Nineteenth-Century Naval Research and Development Procedures" American Neptune, V.7 No. 2, Spring 1966. pp 163-184. (copy at MT)
Richmond Times-Dispatch "Great Virginians: Catesby ap Roger Jones, Commander of the Confederate Ironclad "Virginia," Leading Ordnance Expert, Saved Richmond from Union Fleet"
Tuesday April 7, 1931 (copy at MT)
Smith, Philip Chadwick Foster The Empress of China Philadelphia Maritime Museum. Philadelphia. 1984. 331pp. (Copy at MT)
Thomas, Henry George, Ship's Carpenter (Edited by Alan B. Flanders). Around the World in Old Ironsides. The Voyage of USS Constitution, 1844-1846. Brandylane Publishers, Lively, VA.1993.133pp. (Copy at MT)
United States Navy Department, Bureau of Construction and Repair United States Frigate "Constitution"
A Brief Account of her History, Together with Data for Model Builders
United States General Printing Office, Washington. 1932. 16pp plus plans. (copy at MT)
