Henry Willis Wells

Robert M. Browning Jr. retired in 2015 as Chief Historian of the United States Coast Guard. He is author or editor of six books, among them From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War, U.S. Merchant Vessel War Casualties of World War II, and Lincoln’s Trident: The West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War. He is past editor of the International Journal of Naval History.