CSS Alabama + 2020 others

A LOT of boats were sunk during the Civil War. As readers of this blog may know, I became a student of our own CSS Alabama while working with Bob Corley on an ill-fated documentary project at APT. Now an author has attempted to write the authoritative book on The CSS Alabama and all 2020 other named and unnamed ships that went down. I have not read it nor even seen it, but here is a review of "The Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks" by W. Craig Gaines on a Fredericksburg newspaper website, and reviewer Scott Boyd is not especially impressed. He cites abundant errors in spelling and fact (including misspelling his Civil War history rich town!) As for me though, like the singing dog, I'm impressed that anyone could be so patient as to assemble all of that information in one place, mistakes or not. (-: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CIVIL WAR SHIPWRECKS By W. Craig Gaines (Louisiana State University Press, 264 pages, $35.95) [Photo: Bob Corley preparing the "set" for an interview with the head of the CSS Alabama Association in Mobile. The CSS Alabama documentary he and Tim Lennox were developing was shelved, and the interview never used, by APT. You can see some of their research at http://www.cssalabama.tv/]