Navy yards in northern territory coordinated operations with the Navy Department and Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus Fox. Naval facilities within the borders of the Confederacy, such as those at Pensacola and Key West, Florida, Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, the Gosport Navy Yard in Virginia, as well as the yards at Cairo and Mound City, were subordinate commands of the squadrons they supported. Yards were also formed at Cairo and Mound City, Illinois to support inland river operations. Naval facilities expanded during the war, with improvised yards established at Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, to support blockading operations. Other Southern yards, such as at Key West, Florida, never fell to Confederate forces. 3 As Virginia and Florida seceded, the Confederates seized both the Gosport Navy Yard and the Warrenton Navy Yard, respectively, but both were recaptured in 1862.
1,2 These yards built many dozens of warships and converted several hundreds of civilian vessels for wartime service. These ranged in size and capacity, with the largest being at the Gosport Navy Yard in Virginia, the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Maine, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York.
When the Civil War started, there were ten major naval yards and stations across the country.
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