The material presented in The Civil War Centennial Handbook has been selected from standard sources, the most outstanding of which are: the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies and Navies, Moore's Rebellion Record, Cullum's Biographical Register of West Point Graduates, Phisterer's Statistical Record, Livermore's Numbers and Losses in the Civil War, Fox's Regimental Losses, the Dictionary of American Biography, Dyer's Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, the Annual Reports of the Secretary of War, and last but far from least, one of the richest sources of information available, my fellow members of the District of Columbia Civil War Round Table.
"The Civil War Centennial Handbook"
William H. Price
William saw some very remarkable service in his forty-five years at sea in the royal and merchant Navies.
"The Naval Pioneers of Australia"
Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery
The fears for Washington in the Civil War, and for our chief seaports in the war with Spain, alike illustrate the injurious effects of insufficient home defence upon movements of the armies in the field, or of the Navies in campaign.
"Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles"
Alfred T. Mahan