| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130.2

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Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War. By Michael J. Bennett. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xv, 337p. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

American naval life has always been a culture apart, and in Union Jacks Michael Bennett fully explores the nuances of that culture as it participated in the Civil War. Bennett describes characteristics that identified a Yankee sailor, reveal that life in the Union Navy proved as much of a challenge as fighting the Confederates, and examines the frequently contentious relationship between sailors and officers. The result is a thorough social history of a little documented and underappreciated facet of the Civil War.

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