Talk:List of naval battles of the American Civil War

message: I am pasting in the current version of the "Naval battles" section - It seems a little bit choppy and puts too much detail on only a few battles, when those details would be better presented as parts of individual articles. Any thoughts on how we want this to ultimately appear in this article? Thanks KConWiki (talk) 17:05, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Naval Battles section

message: Numerous sections of this article need to be edited for grammar and for general writing style. A good portion of the article I have read seems to have been written by a fifth grader, and while it makes sense, needs to be translated into more sophisticated language. Please help if possible. Thanks!
:Working on a copyedit now; it is frustratingly shallow to be sure. Do you think the section "Naval purpose," which I have renamed to "Significance," is even necessary in this article? It talks about everything the Navy did except the battles which are the focus of this article. I think the information is more suited for a page "Navies of the American Civil War"... if such a thing exists. Perhaps the section just needs to be renamed to something more appropriate. I'll take a second look at it when I'm done with the copyedit. —2macia22 (talk) 23:47, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: UPDATE: Reorganized. I hope the page feels more streamlined and encyclopedic while still portraying the same information. —2macia22 (talk) 00:22, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar/Writing Style 

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 Battle of Trent's Reach January 23-25, 1865 Final major naval battle of the war
*   Blockade of the South April 19, 1861 1865 Part of the  Anaconda Plan
: As an experiment - I reworked this to fit into Wikipedia - much easier to do on Wikivoyage - Perhaps this kind of thing might be useful or not. -- Matroc (talk) 04:30, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map of Naval encounters