Yellow Flag

Edited by Charles Albert Earp

Maryland Historical Society, 2002 - 168 pages.

In March 1864, C. Marion Dodson left his home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to join the U.S. Navy as a pharmacist. Dodson’s diary recounts the tedium of blockade duty in the Gulf of Mexico, leavened by the fight against the spread of yellow fever, social calls ashore in New Orleans and the exciting pursuit of the formidable C.S.S. William H. Webb.