Civil War Passaic class Monitor recognition markings

John,

I will plan something.

Bill

Well Bill, if you do take a trip to Kinston you have to come  to Greenville, which is half an hour away. Hardly a vacation destination, but we do have a few good restaurants. And you'll want to take a gander at the NC Maritime Museum, in Beaufort (an hour from Kinston). And the Mariners' Museum is about three hours away.

John,

Thanks for this information! Back in 1990, I did a Master's thesis about the innovations and accomplishments of the Confederate States Navy, and am very interested.  I may have t o take a drive down soon.

Bill

Very interesting stuff. This is the most thorough discussion of Civil War warship colors I've seen.

I can't resist putting in a plug here. Anybody who's interested in Civil War warships and is within driving distance of Kinston, North Carolina absolutely must pay a visit to the new C.S.S. Neuse Interpretive Center. The ship (or what's left of her) has been moved from her old, unsatisfactory site on the river bank to a remodeled building in downtown Kinston. The hull remains now rest under a steel-framed "skeleton" that shows visitors the actual shape of the whole ship. She now has modern temperature and humidity controls that should preserve her for another hundred years or so. A group of state-of-the-art exhibits about the ship, the crew, and eastern NC during the war are being built around her. In a year or two this place will be one of the two or three nicest sites in the country for studying the naval phase of the Civil War.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/pages/CSS-Neuse-Civil-War-Interpretive-Center/384028371664386

Steve,

Thanks! I appreciate it.

Bill

Oops...... Thanks for the heads up Bill!  The paper is located at :

walternelson.com/ironclads.pdf

Steve

Steve,

Look on pages 6-5-6-9 of what reference?  

Bill Morrison

Max,

If you look on pages 6-5 to 6-9 on this .pdf you will find the information you seek. These pages deal with the color schemes of the Passaic class of ironclads.  The whole paper is about modeling both Union and Confederate ironclads.

walternelson.com/ironclads.pdf

Another excellent  source is the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion.

Hope this helps you,

Steve