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	Civil War Naval Timeline
		CSS Bayou City and Neptune engaged the Union fleet at Galveston, forcing the North's withdrawal from that foothold on the Texas coast.
		CSS Palmetto State and Chicora attacked the blockading fleet off Charleston; USS Mercedita and Keystone State were heavily damaged and struck their flags.
		CSS Albemarle, Commander J. Cooke, sank USS Southfield and forced the remainder of the Union squadron at Plymouth, North Carolina, to withdraw.
	www.gamepuppet.com /civilwar/nav-timeline.htm (2981 words)

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		CSS SAMPSON, sometimes spelled SAMSON, was employed as a tugboat, prior to her purchase by the Confederate Government in 1861.
		SQUIB CSS SCORPION was procured late in 1864 by the Confederate States Navy and armed with a spar torpedo fitted to her stem.
		CSS FLORIDA is cited on 12 November 1861 as already in commission and serving Commodore Hollins' New Orleans defense flotilla under command of Lt. Charles W. Hays, CSN.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/civil_war_usa/C.S.N./s.txt (5936 words)

	CSS Raleigh (1861) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		CSS Raleigh was originally a small, iron-hulled, propeller-driven towing steamer operating on the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal.
		She was taken over by the State of North Carolina in May 1861, and transferred to the Confederate States the following July.
		On March 8-9, 1862, Raleigh was tender to CSS Virginia during the historic battle of ironclads at Hampton Roads, for which she received the thanks of the Confederate Congress.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/CSS_Raleigh_(1861) (306 words)

	CSS Cotton Plant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		CSS Cotton Plant, sometimes referred to as Cotton Planter, was built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1860 and reportedly carried troops in the Pamlico River as early as September 1861.
		She sailed with CSS Albemarle when that ironclad ram attacked Union forces at Plymouth, North Carolina, sank USS Southfield and drove off USS Miami, USS Ceres and USS Whitehead on April 18-19, 1864.
		On May 5, 1864 she steamed as convoy to Albemarle from the Roanoke River en route to the Alligator River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/CSS_Cotton_Plant (260 words)

	Pamlico-Neuse Civil War & Military > Attractions in & around the Pamlico-Neuse Region of the North ...
		The site of the CSS Neuse, one of three Civil War ironclads, and the Richard Caswell Memorial rests on the banks of the Neuse River and tells stories that span two American wars.
		It was originally placed on the slight elevation where Water Street turns into MacNair Street, a location chosen so that ships coming up the Pamlico River would get, as their first glimpse of the town, the Confederate soldier on his pedestal.
		When a new railroad station was built and railroad activity changed the character of the location, the town decided to move the statue to the new cemetery.
	www.pamlico.com /attractions/PN_civil_war_military.shtml (1737 words)

	Pamlico-Neuse History & Heritage Tourism > Attractions in & around the Pamlico-Neuse Region of the ...
		Reportedly, heavy rains and wind tide pushed in from the Pamlico Sound and flooded the town, until the village and surrounding area were under five feet of water.
		The winds were strong and relentless, and the new church building was floated off its brick pilings and began the journey which gives the story credence.
		After several attempts to drain the lake failed, in 1932 the pumping plant was shut down and the lake began to refill.
	www.pamlico.com /attractions/PN_history.shtml (4129 words)

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		CSS PATRICK HENRY, sometimes referred to as PATRICK was the former side- wheel passenger and freight steamer YORKTOWN which ran between Richmond, Va., and New York.
		CSS PEEDEE was a wooden gunboat built at Mars Bluff near Marion Courthouse, S.C., on the Great Peedee River, to the design of Acting Naval Constructor John L. Porter, CSN, late in 1862.
		On 17 June 1862 PONTCHARTRAIN cooperated with the army in a hard fought battle at St. Charles, Ark. During the engagement two of her 32-pounder rifled guns were transferred to the fort; Lieutenant Dunnington and his men joined the army in its defense and were among the prisoners taken.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/csn/p.txt (3908 words)

	Abner Read - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Read and his ship were ever ready to face up to any challenge which confronted them.
		at Pass Christian..." on 25 March 1862, New London headed straight for CSS Pamlico and CSS Oregon and drove them off to the protection of Southern shore batteries after a two-hour engagement.
		Read was promoted to lieutenant commander on 16 July 1862, and on 18 April 1863, he led a boat expedition which landed near the lighthouse at Sabine Pass.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abner_Read (1207 words)

	Coast Guard responds to vessel collision (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The collision involved the towing vessel CSS Arkansas, that was northbound and pushing seven barges, and the 737-foot Greek-flagged motor vessel Rodon Amarandon, also northbound and carrying pig iron.
		Following the collision the CSS Arkansas and one of the barges, loaded with coke, a non-hazardous substance, sank.
		All four crew members who were aboard the CSS Arkansas were rescued by good samaritans and transported to local hospitals as a precautionary measure.
	www.d8publicaffairs.com /go/doc/425/62504 (297 words)

	North Carolina Lodging - Historic Bath
		European settlement near the Pamlico River in the 1690s led to the creation of Bath, North Carolina's first town, in 1705.
		Ferry service was established across the Pamlico River, and a post road linked Bath to New Bern and Edenton.
		In 1776 a new town, Washington, was formed 15 miles up the Pamlico River.
	www.northcarolinalodging.net /historicSites/bath.html (549 words)

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		Thence RALEIGH escaped through Dismal Swamp Canal to Norfolk, Va. On 8-9 March 1862 RALEIGH was tender to CSS VIRGINIA during the historic battle of ironclads at Hampton Roads, for which she received the thanks of the Confederate Congress.
		none CSS RESOLUTE was a tugboat built in 1858 at Savannah Ga. She entered Confederate service in 1861 and operated as a tow boat, transport, receiving ship, and tender to the sidewheeler CSS SAVANNAH on the coastal and inland waters of Georgia and South Carolina.
		At 0330, the watch on CSS BAYOU CITY lowered their boats to investigate and extinguished the fire with a few buckets of water, minutes before the magazine would certainly have exploded.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/csn/r.txt (3041 words)

	North Carolina and the Civil War : About - Breaking the Blockade
		Work on the CSS Albemarle began in a cornfield along the Roanoke River at Edwards Ferry in January 1863.
		Because of his leadership on the Albemarle, Cooke was promoted to captain on June 10, 1864, and had command of the inland waters of North Carolina until the end of the war.
		Similar to the Albemarle in design, the CSS Neuse was constructed in the hope of driving the Federals out of New Bern and the Pamlico Sound region.
	www.ncmuseumofhistory.org /exhibits/civilwar/about_section6a.html (579 words)

	Pamlico-Neuse Region > Attractions in & around the North Carolina Coast with a focus on Travel, Relocation, ...
		Bennett Vineyards is the largest muscadine and scuppernong vineyard in the Carolinas and lies on a 138-acre parcel of colonial grant land in North Carolina east of U.S. Highway 17 between the neuse and the Pamlico rivers.
		The wine is made in barrels in a converted tobacco barn using recipes and techniques that emulate those of the earliest colonisits.
		Opened and managed by the NC Wildlife Resources Commission, Goose Creek Gameland is a series of waterfowl impoundments, each about 200 acres in size on a peninsula on the south side of the Pamlico River between Aurora and Hobucken in Beaufort and Pamlico counties.
	www.coastalguide.com /attractions/Pamlico-Neuse.shtml (5683 words)

	CSS Virginia
		Memorial to the Crew of the CSS Virginia Cedar Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, Virginia Erected by Stonewall Camp #380, SCV
		There were a few seamen who had escaped from the Confederate flotilla in Pamlico Sound at the fall of Roanoke Island.
		Kevill's company was Company E of the 41st Regiment of the Virginia Infantry (later with the 19th Virginia Battalion Heavy Artillery).
	cssvirginia.org /vacsn3/crew/virginia (802 words)

	Amphibious Warfare: Nineteenth Century
		The first target of this force was to be Roanoke Island in North Carolina's Pamlico Sound.
		Roanoke Island separated the Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds, key bodies of water that served as gateways to North Carolina's strategic heartland.
		The island was located not far from Hatteras Inlet and Forts Hatteras and Clarke on North Carolina's Outer Banks, real estate that Union forces had captured earlier in the year.
	www.exwar.org /Htm/8000PopB8.htm (1995 words)

	Confederate Ironclads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		CSS Arctic: Occasionally identified as an ironclad, but was a floating battery.
		CSS J.A.Cotton: Partially armored, along the lines of a Federal "tinclad." Some confusion exists because of a later, unarmored vessel of the same name.
		CSS Pontchartrain (ex-Lizzie Simmons): Occasionally listed as an ironclad, but was an unarmored ram.
	www.wideopenwest.com /~jenkins/ironclads/confed.htm (4472 words)

	The New Bern Sun Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The remains of the CSS Neuse, scuttled in Kinston in 1865 and pulled out of the Neuse River a century later, are a major attraction at the Caswell site, where it sits under an open shelter.
		At the partnershipâs first meeting in May, Friends of the CSS Neuse was established to promote preservation awareness and raise local funds to augment any state funding received.
		Phillips emphasized Thursday that Friends of the CSS Neuse will now be working âheavilyâ to raise money and promote efforts to preserve the ironclad.
	www.newbernsj.com /SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=28394&Section=Local (676 words)

	navychronology1861b
		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.
		Hatteras Inlet was the main channel into Pamlico Sound and the most convenient entrance for blockade runners bringing supplies to the Confederate Army in Virginia.
		The Navy early recognized the strategic importance of the inlet and invited the Army to cooperate in its capture.
	www.usnlp.org /navychronology/1861b.html (7782 words)

	Navy Civil War chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Fingal (later CSS Atlanta), purchased in England, entered Savannah laden with military supplies -- the first ship to run the blockade solely on Confederate government account.
		Gunboats under Rear Admiral D. Porter, with troops embarked, compelled the surrender of Fort Hindman (Arkansas Post) on the Arkansas River.
		USS Montauk, Wissahickon, Seneca, and Dawn shelled and destroyed blockade runner Rattlesnake (formerly CSS Nashville) under the guns of Fort McAllister, Georgia.
	www.history.navy.mil /wars/civilwar.htm (3042 words)

	CSCOR: Stressors: Climate Change: Overview
		The Pilot Project, currently underway in the Pamlico Sound area of North Carolina, teams University researchers with NOAA scientists.
		Specialist in biology, geomorphology and coastal modeling are joining forces to integrate storm surge models with ecological models for more precise predictions of how future sea level will affect coastal wetlands, submerged aquatic vegetation, sub tidal habitat and oyster reefs.
		Recent discoveries in the Northeast Pacific ocean show the importance of oceanic variability in influencing zooplankton species distributions, salmon growth and survival, and episodic events such as coastal hypoxia.
	www.cop.noaa.gov /stressors/climatechange/overview.html (1018 words)

	CSN Personnel Index, T-Z (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		William A. Vaden, served as seaman, CSS Virginia II, 1864-1865; married October 11, 1868; died December 16, 1910; wife, Mary C. Vaden, applied for a Confederate widow's pension, from Charleston, South Carolina, in 1919 (she incorrectly indicated his rank as being a captain).
		He served aboard the CSS Savannah, and, for a few days, on the CSS Resolute until December of that year, when, upon the evacuation of Savannah, the ship was scuttled to prevent it from falling into Union hands.
		George A. Whipple, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Sumter, native of Massachusetts, deserted at Gibraltar, April, 1862; later enlisted in the Union Navy, and served aboard the USS Kearsarge.
	home.ozconnect.net /tfoen/csnindex4.htm (12091 words)

	Division of Parks and Recreation--Cliffs of the Neuse State Park, Park history
		What is now the park used to be a ceremonial ground and a gathering place for hunting expeditions.
		A gateway to the Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, the Neuse River also played a role in Civil War history.
		As part of an effort by the Confederate Navy to challenge Union control of North Carolina's coastal waters, an ironclad ramming vessel, the CSS Neuse, was built at Whitehall.
	ils.unc.edu /parkproject/visit/clne/history.html (506 words)

	CSS Raleigh
		See the index entry for the CSS Raleigh in Volume 7, Series 1 of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies at Cornell's Making of America web site.
		The CSS Raleigh was a steam gunboat of 65 tons that carried from one to four guns.
		RALEIGH supported Forts Hatteras and Clark on 28-29 August 1861; took part in an expedition on 1 October to capture United States Army steamer FANNY with valuable stores on board; and accompanied CSS SEA BIRD when she reconnoitered Pamlico Sound 20 January 1862.
	cssvirginia.org /vacsn3/crew/raleigh/index.htm (354 words)

	North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In 1900 he was elected governor and dedicated his life to improving public education in North Carolina.
		This simple farmhouse was situated between Confederate General Johnston's headquarters in Greensboro and Union General Sherman's headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina.
		And view the remnants of the ironclad gunboat CSS Neuse, a product of the Confederate navy's ill-fated attempt to regain control of the lower Neuse River and retake the city of New Bern during the Civil War.
	www.ncdcr.gov /historic-sites.htm (1298 words)

	USS Valley City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Valley City sailed for Hampton Roads on 27 November and proceeded on to Baltimore for repairs and did not return to New Berne until 19 February 1864, when she resumed her now familiar patrol and reconnaissance activities.
		On 28 October, Valley City plucked Lt. William Barker Cushing from the Roanoke River after his daring, successful torpedo attack upon the Confederate ram CSS Albemarle at Plymouth and, from 29 October to 1 November, assisted in the recapture of Plymouth itself.
		In May, losco Valley City, and a picket boat captured a motley collection of small Confederate watercraft during a sweep of the Roanoke River and also dragged the bottom for sunken guns and unexploded torpedoes.
	www.multied.com /1812/Ghent.htmlhttp://elections/navy/Steamer/valleycity.html (647 words)

	Tyrrell County Surrounding Area > Attractions in & around the North Carolina Coast with a focus on Travel, ...
		Civil War: the May 1864 battle between the ironclad CSS Albemarle and escorts and Union navy vessels waiting in the Albemarle Sound.
		Artifacts on CSS Ram Albemarle (ironclad) sunk at Plymouth in October 1864.
		Special attention is paid to the famous Confederate ironclad CSS Albemarle, its successful exploits against the Union fleet and its sinking Oct. 27, 1864.
	www.albemarle-nc.com /columbia/attractions/area-attractions.shtml (10123 words)

	The Endless Chain Pig Club » Ocracoke Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		I’d be bitter, let me tell you… the only water here is the Pamlico River, brown and nasty, bath temperature water with eels and leeches.
		For the uninformed, the Tar River turns into the Pamlico River when it hits the bridge on NC Hwy 17.
		This entry was posted on Sunday, August 8th, 2004 at 1:47 PM and filed under Washington Now, Hurricane Season 2006.
	www.washingtonnc.org /2004/08/08/ocracoke-island (178 words)

	CSCOR: Stressors : Climate Change: Current Programs : Sea Level Rise Research Program
		Starting with southern Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, our approach is to simulate projected sea level rise using a coastal flooding model that combines a hydrodynamic model of water levels with a high resolution digital elevation model (DEM).
		The funding announcement published for Ecological Effects of Sea Level Rise has the overall goal of providing an ecological context for the water level modeling being performed by NOS.
		Proposals for funding under this announcement have been accepted for study of the localized effects of sea level rise in the Pamlico and Bogue Sounds and the Neuse River in the State of North Carolina.
	www.cop.noaa.gov /stressors/climatechange/current/sea_level_rise.html (731 words)

	Waymarking - North Carolina Historic Markers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Marker describing the old foundry where some of the rifles of the Civil War from Guilford County were manufactured and supplied to the Confederacy.
		This marker commemorates the United States Coast Guard Cutter Pamlico, stationed in New Bern from 1907 to 1947.
		Ram Albemarle, known also as the CSS Albemarle was a Confederate ironclad gunboat built near Hamilton and outfitted with machinery and guns at Halifax.
	www.waymarking.com /waymarks/default.aspx?f=-1&WTGUID=cb4fa9b5-732a-47f0-a4ac-d2faa36e4b07 (832 words)

	The Civil War\| Historic Albemarle Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		From there, he had a base of operations from which to conduct a systematic conquest of the northeastern and central part of the coast.
		Finally, on October 27th, 1864, in one of the most daring maneuvers of the war, Federal soldiers slipped over to the CSS Albemarle under cover of night, planted an explosive using an improvised torpedo boat, and sent the ironclad to the bottom of the river.
		However, Union forays up the Chowan and Roanoke Rivers were not as successful, thanks to heavy defensive positions such as Fort Branch, which commanded the Roanoke River above Williamston from a high bluff.
	www.historicnenc.com /history_civil.html (633 words)

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