"Some men were fiery and motivational, leading with a barely restrained recklessness and demeanor of perpetually fresh anger. Others were intelectual warriors, brains in circuit with the matrix in space where vectors flew toward other vectors and results of battle followed from the nature of their intersections. The fighter's way was elemental. It was not possible to cultivate in reliably in an academic meritocracy, or to gauge it by class rank. The woodsmen with their squirrel guns who beat the British at New Orleans rallied to Andrew Jackson's readiness to fury, a scent that inspired fear, his instinct to abandon prudence and seize a sudden opening to kill. Such a man knew that a warship was not a lady but a platform of systems that fire projectiles that kill. Having tasted defeat, the Navy was starting to come back to appreciating the unpolished strengths of the Georgia farm boys who found themselves under gentle persecution on board Commander Wylie's (USS) Fletcher. A rebel yell and a blast of powder. That and a little planning and technical proficiency would carry the day."

Neptune's Inferno, by James D. Hornfischer, 2011, "Chapter 13- The Warriors"

Although I am 1/3rd throught this book I have found several of references to American Southern heroism in the naval battles around Guadalcanal; several directly to Confederate history. Hornfischer is a New Englander by birth but a bonified Texan now. The reference to the USS Fletcher's Georgia crew is interesting because with so many men with deep Southern accents, that ship had to modify the traditional ship voice communications and use their own brand naval jargon.