Dwight Hughes is a public historian, author, and speaker in Civil War naval history (www.CivilWarNavyHistory.com). Lieutenant Commander Hughes graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1967 and served twenty years aboard warships, on navy staffs, and with river forces in Vietnam. Dwight authored A Confederate Biography: The Cruise of the CSS Shenandoah (Naval Institute Press, 2015) and Unlike Anything that Ever Floated: The Monitor and Virginia and the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862 (Savas Beatie, 2021). He is a contributing author at the Emerging Civil War blog (www.emergingcivilwar.com) and has presented at numerous roundtables, historical conferences, and other venues.