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Acest articol este bazat în primul rând pe autorul e Fier pe linia de Plutire: Povestea Confederate Armorclads (1971; repr., Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1985).alte surse includ: Richard E. Beringer, et. al., De ce Sudul a pierdut războiul Civil (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986).

Saxon T., Bisbee, „”How A Vas of This Magnitude Was Moved”: A Comparative Analysis of Confederate Ironclad Steam Engines, Boilere, and Propulsion Systems „(master ‘ s thesis, East Carolina University, 2012).Leslie S. Bright, William H. Rowland și James C. Barton, CSS Neuse: a Question of Iron and Time (Raleigh: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1981).Charles F. Dufour, the Night the War Was Lost (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1960).Robert G. Elliott, Ironclad Din Roanoke: Gilbert Elliott ‘ s Albemarle (Shippensburg, PA: White Mane, 1994).

Robert A., Holcombe Jr., „the Evolution of Confederate Ironclad Design” (master ‘ s thesis, East Carolina University, 1993).Raimondo Luraghi, o istorie a Marinei Confederate (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1996).Maurice Melton, cea mai bună stație dintre toate: Escadrila Savannah, 1861-1865 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012).William N. Still Jr., Confederate Shipbuilding (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1987).

William N. Still Jr., și Richard Stephenson, ” Maritime North Carolina: A History of Ship/Boat Building 1682-1917,” manuscris în posesia autorului. A se vedea capitolul 8.Maxine Turner, Navy Gray: a Story of the Confederate Navy on the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988).