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	Facts - Office of Cultural & Historical Programs
		Early in the war the Union navy began a blockade of Florida's coast to prevent the Confederacy from importing and exporting arms and trade goods.
		Blockade runners brought in war materials and luxuries, often from Bermuda, the Bahamas, and Cuba.
		Blockade duty for the average sailor was long, hot, and boring.
	dhr.dos.state.fl.us /facts/reports/civilwar/14.cfm (300 words)

	Blockade Runner Wrightsville Beach
		A blockade runner is a ship designed to provide vital supplies to countries or areas blockaded by enemy forces during wartime.
		The term "blockade runner" has also been used by science fiction and fantasy writers for spaceships serving a similar purpose.
		A blockade is also the attritional aspect of a siege, with the besiegers preventing food supplies from reaching the besieged.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/22/blockade-runner-wrightsville-beach.html (1079 words)

	DECEMBER 1861-1865
		The blockade runner Peep O’Day was carrying a cargo of cotton.
		Ships of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron were ordered by Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgreen to obey this order, but to carefully screen the incoming ships to ensure they had not visited other ports that were still blockaded.
		The blockade runner was carrying a cargo of salt and borax.
	www.flahistory.net /december_18611865.htm (3190 words)

	Confederate States Navy
		While the vessels themselves are important, and some are fascinating in their construction detail and operation, the real heart and soul of the Confederate navy during the War Between the States was her cadre of professional officers and dedicated men.
		Blockade running during the war was the "lifeline of the Confederacy".
		Of these three, the cruise of the CSS Alabama was by far the most successful and damaging to the Federal economy.
	www.angelfire.com /ga3/confederaterebels (1027 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-Marauders of the Sea, Confederate Merchant Raiders During the American Civil War-CSS ...
		By early May, Florida had stopped the brig Clarence loaded with aromatic coffee, 300 bags were transferred, one of his Lieutenants Charles W. Read pleaded with his Captain to be allowed to man Clarence and operate her as an armed cruiser.
		Florida had not been able to dry dock at Bermuda, and with continuing engine troubles, and the copper sheathing on her hull coming loose, it was now a priority to get the ship into a dry dock.
		Although Florida had been undertaking repairs at Brest over a 6 month period, her new captain was still not happy, but the patience of the patience of the French was exhausted, the local Naval Chief Vice Admiral Count de Gueyton told Morris it was time for his ship to move on.
	www.ahoy.tk-jk.net /MaraudersCivilWar/CSSFlorida.html (7683 words)

	Defense Dui Florida Lawyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A lawyer using the gay panic defense claims that the defendant acted in a state of temporary insanity because of a little-known psychiatric condition called homosexual panic.
		CSS Florida (blockade runner) - The Confederate blockade runner CSS Florida, built at Greenpoint, New York in 1859, was thrice considered for a gunboat before she became one.
		www.morelawyers.com CSS Florida (blockade runner) - The Confederate blockade runner CSS Florida, built at Greenpoint, New York in 1859, was thrice considered for...
	speeding.vvvvvv3.com /defenseduifloridalawyer.html (657 words)

	Charlotte Harbor town was born of Union blockade (Florida)
		Florida was not a locale for epoch military battles in the war.
		Blockading ships on station off Boca Grande Pass were the Gem of the Sea, a privately owned, three-mast bark converted to a gunboat; and the Rosalie, a two-mast cutter, formerly a captured blockade-buster on the East Coast.
		On the FLorida East Coast, since Jax and Mayport were shut down by Lincoln's unlawful blockade, the blockade runners would run it around New Smyrna and head for the Bahamas.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/695747/posts (1933 words)

	CSS Alabama Association (USA) - The Crew
		Thomas C. Cuddy, Gunner, CSS Alabama, born in Charleston, South Carolina; drowned January 19, 1865, in the foundering of blockade runner Lelia.
		John McIntosh Kell, Lieutenant, CSS Alabama and CSS Sumter; born in Georgia, 1823; died October 5, 1900, and buried in LaGrange, Georgia.
		Raphael Semmes, Commander, CSS Alabama; born September 27, 1809, in Maryland (resided in Mobile, Alabama before the war); died August 30, 1877, at Mobile, Alabama; buried at the Catholic Cemetery.
	www.css-alabama.com /crew.html (1415 words)

	U.S. Civil War Navies.
		CSS Atlanta Trivia: A Collection of Facts and Figures Relating to the Battle at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863.
		The Case for Granting a Pension to John O'Brien, Blockade Runner.
		Samuel Beard Risien: From the CSS Alabama to the Titanic.
	www.tfoenander.com (1365 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-Letters-Civil War blockade runner Modern Greece
		Many of the blockade runners that made it safely into Wilmington were indebted to Colonel William Lamb, the commanding officer at Fort Fisher.
		With these pieces he made the blockading fleet move its anchorage from two and one-half to five miles from the fort.
		The remains of this iron hulled blockade runner are buried in 15 feet of water off Fort Fisher at Kure Beach.
	ahoy.tk-jk.net /Letters/CivilWarblockaderunnerMod.html (1581 words)

	Famous Blockade Runners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		She was jointly purchased by the state of North Carolina and the firm of Lord Power & Co. to serve as a blockade runner.
		Colonel Lamb, one of the most famous and successful of the Confederate Navy's own blockade runners was built in 1864 by Jones, Quiggin & Company, a near sister to Hope which preceded her that year, but with a much longer deckhouse, and lacking the customary turtleback foredeck which Hope had.
		Her 23rd voyage was her last; the blockader USS Niphon gave chase as she sought to run in to Wilmington, forcing Lt. Richard H. Gayle, CSN, to beach his ship 11 miles north of New Inlet; the captain, carpenter and one seaman remained on board while the officers, crew and passengers escaped to shore.
	www.wideopenwest.com /~jenkins/ironclads/famous.htm (3516 words)

	When Liverpool Was Dixie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The CSS Tallahassee, formerly the blockade runner Atlanta, was built at Millwall, London, on the banks of the River Thames.
		On 6th August 1864, the CSS Tallahassee was taken through the blockade, and, during a 19 day period, 26 vessels were destroyed off the East coast of America and Canada.
		Captained by Lt.J.Wilkinson, she sailed out through the blockade on 24th December, having no trouble with the Union navy, as they were preoccupied with the bombardment of nearby Fort Fisher.
	www.csa-dixie.com /liverpool_dixie/tallahassee.htm (303 words)

	CSS Nashville Civil War Confederate Navy Ship
		CSS Nashville, a 1221-ton side-wheel steamer, was originally a passenger steamer built at Greenpoint, New York, in 1853.
		CSS Nashville capturing and burning the U.S. merchantman Harvey Birch in the English Channel, 19 November 1861.
		The CSS Nashville (1861-1862) running into Beaufort on 28 February 1862, after her raiding cruise in the Atlantic and European waters.
	americancivilwar.com /tcwn/civil_war/Navy_Ships/CSS_Nashville.html (834 words)

	USS Tahoma History Sheet
		She was assigned to the Eastern Gulf Blockade Squadron, and remained with this force throughout the Civil War.
		The CSS Bat was captured by The USS Montgomery.
		She had engagements with the CSS Tallahassee, CSS Florida, CSS Palmetto, and the CSS Tacony.
	www.wcwa.net /TahomaHistory.htm (1126 words)

	navychronology1861b
		However, as the naval blockade tightened and ports and coastal havens were seized by amphibious assault and other naval actions, operations of Confederate raiders became increasingly difficult and restricted.
		Merrimack [later CSS Virginia] has been raised and docked at an expense of $6,000, and the necessary repairs to hull and machinery to place her in her former condition is estimated by experts at $450,000.
		Flag Officer Du Pont observed the blockade's increasing pressure on the South's economy: "The flag is hoisted on the lighthouse and martello tower at Tybee.
	www.usnlp.org /navychronology/1861b.html (7782 words)

	North Carolina and the Civil War : Explore - They Were There
		Thus the Florida slipped into Mobile Bay in one of the most daring naval exploits of the war.
		The Florida had orders to "cruise at discretion," doing "the enemy's commerce the greatest injury in the shortest time." As captain of the Florida, Maffitt carried out these instructions admirably, capturing twenty-four ships.
		After a stint as commander of the CSS Albemarle in Plymouth in 1864, John Newland Maffitt accepted his last position in the Confederate navy, commander of the blockade-runner Owl, on September 9, 1864.
	ncmuseumofhistory.org /exhibits/civilwar/explore_section4l.html (444 words)

	USS America
		After Union combined forces began taking control of the Florida coast early in March 1862, the schooner was scuttled in Dunn's Creek—a tributary of the St. Johns River—to avoid capture.
		Her gunfire and signals to other Union warships were instrumental in forcing the blockade runner aground where she was destroyed.
		While America was at the New York Navy Yard, Kane received orders to uut to sea in search of CSS Tacony, a bark recently captured by the brig Clarence which had, in turn, been taken and manned by the Confederate commerce raider CSS Florida.
	www.multied.com /Navy/CWNavy/America.html (2197 words)

	Search for the C.S.S. HUNLEY, the U.S.S. CUMBERLAND and the C.S.S. FLORIDA
		Constructed by the Confederacy in Mobile, she was later shipped to Charleston in an optimistic hope of breaking the Union blockade.
		But their greatest triumph was saving the lives of three children who were swept out to sea in a tidal current.
		Walt Schob and the archaeologists dove and found a wreck which indeed later proved to be the Florida.
	www.numa.net /expeditions/hunley_cumberland_florida.html (1445 words)

	Camden People - Dr. Henry Ackley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Wissahickon, a screw gunboat, was built in 1861 at Philadelphia by John Lynn and was delivered to the Navy on November 12, 1861 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard where she was placed in commission on November 25, with Lieutenant A. Smith in command.
		However, soon after San Jacinto began this duty, word reached Key West that CSS Florida had escaped through the blockade from Mobile and was at Havana.
		On January 22, Rear Admiral Bailey ordered San Jacinto to sail for Cuba and blockade the Confederate cruiser if she were in port or to chase and capture or destroy her if the commerce raider had departed.
	www.dvrbs.com /PEOPLE/CamdenPeople-DrHenryAckley.htm (1217 words)

	Civil War Navy Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lee, Samuel Phillips: (1812-1897; Commander, Captain, Acting Rear Admiral) For the command of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron; for the reorganization of the blockade of Wilmington; for the command of the Mississippi Squadron.
		Parker, William Harwar: (1826-1896; Lieutenant) For the command of CSS Beaufort in the Carolina Sounds and Hampton Roads; for service aboard CSS Palmetto State in the attack on the blockaders off Charleston; for the establishment and administration of the Confederate Naval Academy on the schoolship CSS Patrick Henry.
		Waddell, James Iredell: (1824-1886; Lieutenant) For the command of CSS Shenandoah; for the circumnavigation of the globe under the Confederate flag.
	www.wideopenwest.com /~jenkins/ironclads/halloffame.htm (1000 words)

	biblio
		CSS Florida, CSS Clarence-Tacony-Archer, CSS Webb, and headed an overland torpedo expedition in Virginia.
		Founders note: In regards to the part on the CSS FLORIDA, this book is full of errors that could have easily been documented.
		Maury of the CSS GEORGIA, Admiral Franklin Buchanan at Mobile, John Taylor Wood of the CSS TALLAHASSEE, and the CSS LOUISIANA.
	www.csnavy.org /biblio.htm (3757 words)

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		However, soon after she began this duty, word reached Key West that CSS Florida had escaped through the blockade from Mobile and was at Havana.
		That evening shortly before twilight, the blockade runner--which happened to bear the name of the frigate's old adversary, Alabama--ran ashore and was abandoned.
		This blockade runner had departed from Havana laden with lead and was endeavoring to dash into Mobile.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/frigates/s_jacint.htm (2845 words)

	USS San Jacinto CG-56 - "Victory is Certain" First USS San Jacinto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		With the end of the principal Confederate naval threat to Union forces on the peninsula and its surrounding water, San Jacinto was free to resume her voyage south.
		On 22 January, Rear Admiral Theodorus Bailey ordered San Jacinto to sail for Cuba and blockade the Confederate cruiser if she were in port or to chase and capture or destroy her if the commerce raider had departed.
		That evening shortly before twilight, the blockade runner—which happened to bear the name of the frigate's old adversary, Alabama—ran ashore and was abandoned.
	www.sanjacinto.navy.mil /first.htm (3203 words)

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	Florida Reenactors Online News Magazine
		Captured aboard his ship, the ironclad CSS Atlanta, in a 1863 coastal battle with Union vessels, he died within months of becoming a prisoner of war at Fort Warren on Georges Island in Boston Harbor.
		He was an assistant engineer on the CSS Atlanta when he was captured with the rest of the crew on June 17, 1863, during a naval battle near Savannah, Ga. He died of pneumonia at Fort Warren on Oct. 13.
		Draping the casket will be a replica of the flag from the CSS Atlanta, and the Bonnie Blue flag from the casket of Johnston's granddaughter, a former president of the Florida United Daughters of the Confederacy.
	www.floridareenactorsonline.com /OctoberMag22002.htm (8676 words)

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