With the assistance of several scholars, including James M. McPherson and Gary Gallagher, and a long-time specialist in Civil War books, Ralph Newman, David Eic

Memoirs. Stockwell enlisted in the Union Army in 1862 as a boy of fifteen, and stayed until the end of the war.

In the Civil War, both sides understood that closing the South's ports would halt the introduction of war materiel to the industrially weak region. Though the N