fuentes:

Este artículo se basa principalmente en Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads (1971; repr., Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1985).

Otras fuentes incluyen:

Richard E. Beringer, et. al., Why the South Lost The Civil War (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986).

Saxon T., Bisbee, «‘How a Vessel of This Magnitude Was Moved’ : A Comparative Analysis of Confederate Ironclad Steam Engines, Boilers, and Propulsion Systems» (tesis de maestría, East Carolina University, 2012).

Leslie S. Bright, William H. Rowland, and 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 (Ciudad Jardín, Nueva York: Doubleday, 1960).

Robert G. Elliott, Ironclad of the Roanoke: Gilbert Elliott’s Albemarle (Shippensburg, PA: White Mane, 1994).

Robert A., Holcombe Jr., «the Evolution of Confederate Ironclad Design» (tesis de maestría, East Carolina University, 1993).

Raimondo Luraghi, A History of the Confederate Navy (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1996).Maurice Melton, the Best Station of Them All: the Savannah Squadron, 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., and Richard Stephenson, » Maritime North Carolina: A History of Ship/Boat Building 1682-1917,» manuscript in author’s possession. Véase el capítulo 8.Maxine Turner, Navy Gray: A Story of the Confederate Navy on the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988).