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	Science Fair Projects - CSS Rappahannock
		CSS Rappahannock, a steam sloop-of-war, was built in the Thames River in 1857 for the British Government and named Victor.
		When he bought her from the Admiralty through his secret agent on November 14, Commander Matthew F. Maury had intended Rappahannock to replace the unwanted, iron CSS Georgia and was about to transfer Georgia's battery to her.
		She was ideal for a cruiser—wooden hull, bark-rigged, two engines and a lifting screw propeller—but she was doomed to serve the Confederacy no more glamorously than a floating depot.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/CSS_Rappahannock (391 words)

	Science Fair Projects - CSS Georgia (cruiser)
		CSS Georgia was built in 1862 as the fast merchantman Japan.
		On April 9, 1863 the Confederate flag was hoisted and she was placed in commission as CSS Georgia, Commander William L. Maury, CSN, in command.
		While she was undergoing repair at Cherbourg in late January 1864, it was decided to shift her armament to CSS Rappahannock.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/CSS_Georgia_%28cruiser%29 (567 words)

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		HAMPTON CSS HAMPTON was a wooden gunboat built at Norfolk Navy Yard in 1862 and based there until May when the yard was abandoned and the fleet moved up the James River.
		CSS HARMONY, a small steam tug built at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1859, was placed under exclusive control of Page 534 A.
		CSS HARRIET LANE was built for the United States Revenue Cutter Service in 1857-58 by the celebrated William H. Webb, New York, and was the only steam vessel in that service at the time.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/csn/h.txt (3733 words)

	Vermont Civil War
		Rappahannock, originally the passenger steamer St. Nicholas, was captured in the Potomac River on 28 June 1861.
		Lewis, CSN, she operated in the Potomac and Rappahannock until April 1862 only to be burned by the Confederates at Fredericksburg.
		Maury had intended Rappahannock to replace unwanted, iron Georgia and was about to transfer Georgia's battery to her.
	vermontcivilwar.org /units/navy/ships/cssrappahannock.php (377 words)

	css menu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Her length overall was 172 feet, css menu her beam was 41, and her draught only 10--lessthan half the draught of the Merrimac.
		A wonderful stalker and dead shot he was aterror to exposed Confederates at all times; but moreparticularly towards the end, when (their front artillery havingbeen silenced by Grant's guns) Coonskin built a log tower,armored with railway iron, from which he picked off men who weresafe from ordinary fire.
		But the pitcher was high and had a narrow neck, css menu and no matterhow he tried, the Crow could not reach the water.
	7www.leedo.info /?id=134343 (653 words)

	Kearsarge and Alabama
		The Kearsarge was a fast steamer for those days, and had made an average of thirteen and a half knots with moderate head wind and sea from daylight until 10 o'clock at night during a chase.
		The crew of each vessel was as follows: Kearsarge, one hundred and sixty-three, all told; the Alabama, about the same number, as near as could be ascertained at the time, although her crew had numbered as high as one hundred and seventy a short time before.
		Captain Raphael Semmes, Skipper of the Alabama; and Officers of the CSS Alabama (Raphael Semmes and John Kell).
	www.geocities.com /generalgreene1770/RIMOLLUS/kearsargealabama.html (7096 words)

	navychronology1864b
		CSS Florida, Lieutenant Morris, captured and burned bark Greenland, with cargo of coal, and schooner Margaret Y. Davis, in ballast, at sea off Cape Henry, Virginia.
		Rappahannock and negotiating her clearance from French authorities in Calais, Flag Officer Barron reluctantly concluded that she could not be taken to sea under the Confederate flag.
		Though the Rappahannock River area was dominated by the Northern forces, Union ships had to be continually on the alert to prevent audacious Southern raids.
	www.usnlp.org /navychronology/1864b.html (12468 words)

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		MORGAN CSS GAINES was hastily constructed by the Confederates at Mobile, Ala., during 1861-62, from unseasoned wood which was partially covered with 2- inch iron plating.
		Gaines resembled CSS MORGAN except that she had high pressure boilers.
		In 1861 she lay at Gosport (Norfolk) Navy Yard ready for sea but had to be scuttled and burned by the Federal Navy, evacuating Gosport, 20-21 April.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/civil_war_usa/C.S.N./g.txt (7186 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.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/civil_war_usa/C.S.N./r.txt (3041 words)

	Prologue - Prologue: Selected Articles
		Rappahannock continued in Confederate hands, rotting at dock until the end of the war.
		CSS Alabama had shadowed the voyage of several ships of the flotilla from South Africa to the Strait of Malacca.
		Commissioned CSS Shenandoah, the new cruiser worked her way from the Atlantic into the Indian Ocean, refitted in Australia, and cut a swath through the Yankee whaling fleets in the Pacific.
	www.archives.gov /publications/prologue/2001/fall/confederate-fleet-1.html?template=print (4973 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-Marauders of the Sea, Confederate Merchant Raiders During the American Civil War-CSS ...
		CSS Rappahannock (1863-1865) Tied up at Calais, France, where she was detained from 1863 to the end of the Civil War.
		Barron never ventured to inspect the ship himself, and closed his eyes to all the reported deficiencies, and was determined to sail her.
		The French still detained Rappahannock, and she still had not acquired Georgia’s armament, and Fauntleroy advised Barron that the Georgia’s guns were too light for his ship anyway.
	www.ahoy.tk-jk.net /MaraudersCivilWar/CSSRappahannock.html (833 words)

	JOHN TAYLOR WOOD SPIES, RAIDERS & PARTISANS
		On August 22, under a stormy night sky, Wood led his 80 men down the Rappahannock to the bay, where their prey lay waiting.
		In August of that year, Wood was given command of the CSS Tallahassee, on which he terrorized the North, from New York to Maine, capturing or destroying 31 Union vessels before his raiding career was through.
		In his Chesapeake bay raids, Wood shocked the North, embarrassed the Union flotilla, and seized valuable equipment for the ailing Confederate navy--all without losing a single Rebel.
	members.tripod.com /~beag27/jwood.html (377 words)

	NIAHD Journals
		In the afternoon of March 8th, 1862 the CSS Virginia "came in sight of open water, Buchanan saw across the Roads five warships of the blockade squadron lying at anchor, three off Fort Monroe and two off Newport News.
		All in all the Virginia was victorious that day and in her desperate attempt to lift the Union blockade she gained significant ground by sinking and injuring most of the Union fleet.
		In keeping with the theme on the peninsula in 1862 the Union Army did not intend to emancipate the slaves, but by enlisting them in the army and keeping them in their desperation the eventual result was the Emancipation Proclamation.
	www.wm.edu /niahd/journals/?browse=entry&id=2328 (1645 words)

	Chronology Of The American Civil War
		This area of the Home of the Civil War presents a timeline of the Civil War beginning with Lincoln's election in November '60 and ending with the surrender of the CSS Shenandoah in November '65.
		CSS Shenandoah ends operations in Bering Sea, having taken 11 whalers that day.
		CSS Shenandoah learns of end of the war.
	www.civilwarhome.com /timeline.htm (875 words)

	Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He would march his force through Urbanna on the Rappahannock River and come in behind CS General Joseph Johnston, who was then still in Manassas.
		The CSS Virginia was about to change Naval history forever.
		Just as McClellan was getting ready to put his plan in action, the CSS Virginia appeared and attempted to break the US Naval blockade around Newport News.
	home.comcast.net /~HoffmanCIW/1862/background.htm (573 words)

	Civil War Naval Forces Index
		CSS Arkansas [ironclad ram] [Illustrations, brief notes] [History] [Description, illus.
		CSS David [torpedo boat] [Photos, brief notes] [Photos, notes] [Description, illus.
		CSS Tennessee [ironclad ram] [Description, illustration] [Photo, brief notes, roster] [Description, illus., Mobile Bay] [Description, illus.
	www.tarleton.edu /~kjones/CSNavy.html (905 words)

	Interesting Facts: the Naval War [Archive] - Armchair General Forums
		The CSS Shanendoah upon lowering her flag in Liverpool on November 6th, 1965, marked the last time the Confederate flag was lowered from an active Confederate unit, either on land or sea.
		The Confederate submarine CSS Hunley was built from a steam boiler, cut and tapered to make the correct shape.
		The CSS Rappahannock never saw action, spending the war in a French port.
	www.armchairgeneral.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-40889.html (896 words)

	Confederate Ships--CSS Rappahannock (1863-1865) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		CSS Rappahannock, a 1042-ton wooden screw cruiser, was built in England in 1857 as HMS Victor.
		However, a machinery breakdown forced her to put into Calais, France, for repairs and she was detained there by the French Government throughout the rest of the Civil War.
		Rappahannock was turned over to the United States Government after the end of the conflict.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-us-cs/csa-sh/csash-mr/rapahk2.htm (178 words)

	navychronology1864a
		Rappahannock was "repairing slowly but surely;" she would be armed with the battery from CSS Georgia, no longer fit for duty as a cruiser.
		The Union boat encountered her captors in a thick fog and was unable to with-draw rapidly enough against the flood tide to escape.
		Kearsarge, a detailed description of CSS Flusser, Lieutenant William P. Campbell, under the impression that she would soon attempt to begin a cruise on the high seas.
	www.usnlp.org /navychronology/1864a.html (10798 words)

	American Civil War, The Alabama & the Kearsarge: the Sailor's Civil War
		Marvel begins with the escape of the CSS Sumter, Raphael Semmes's first command under the Stars and Bars, from the lower Mississippi River past powerful Union warships into the Gulf of Mexico.
		The sloop spent much of her time in port, either watching an inactive adversary such as the CSS Sumter at Gibraltar, Spain or the CSS Rappahannock at Calais, France, undergoing repairs, or replenishing her supply of coal or provisions.
		When she was at sea, the Kearsarge missed opportunities to intercept the CSS Florida and the CSS Georgia.
	www.americancivilwar.org.uk /book_the-alabama-the-kearsarge:-the-sailors-civil-war_33.htm (846 words)

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		Cornelius Duffy of Apalachicola died June 1, 1863, in Columbus, as result of the CSS Chattahoochee's boiler explosion.
		CSS Chattahoochee, CSS Savannah, CSS Palmetto State, Wilmington station.
		CSS MORGAN; Service Abroad; CSS VIRGINIA No. 2; James River Squadron; Flag Lt. to Flag Officer John K.
	www.csnavy.org /ga/ga.htm (631 words)

	Program in Maritime Studies: Abstracts
		The purpose of this study is to give a comprehensive coverage of the multi-faceted career of the CSS Rappahannock.
		The Rappahannock has been either ignored or only given brief mention by most Civil War historians and this neglect is undeserved.
		When it looked like the United States was going to win the suit by default, the two men who originally purchased the ship for the Confederacy entered suits against the United States to prevent that government from gaining possession of the ship.
	www.ecu.edu /maritime/Bray01.htm (418 words)

	biblio
		CSS PATRICK HENRY on the James River in Virginia.
		CSS Florida, CSS Clarence-Tacony-Archer, CSS Webb, and headed an overland torpedo expedition in Virginia.
		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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		C.S.S. Virginia: Mistress of Hampton Roads by John V. Quarstein.
		Maps of the area, participating ships and crews, historical documents, images, and a description of how the burnt and sunken USS Merrimack was turned into the CSS Virginia.
		Details of the ship's design, complete with diagrams, its history, and the plan to save the craft from the bottom of the sea.
	www.historypoint.org /columns2.asp?column_id=1019&column_type=hplunch (473 words)

	H-Net Review: Crandall Shifflett on The Fredericksburg Campaign: Decision on the Rappahannock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		His answer is that Lee's defensive stance on the Rappahannock was an exception to his career.
		To be sure, plenty of scholars will complain that this kind of approach is too dismissive of the drama of great events, the influence of political leaders, and the force of ideology.
		Until we have more "decisions on the Rappahannock," however, than just those of political and military leaders, our understanding of this war will remain incomplete.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3427892239862 (1116 words)

	When Liverpool Was Dixie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		By 1864 it had become clear to the european Governments that the Confederate States were losing their fight for independance, and not surprisingly, the French Government placed repeated obstacles in the path of the Confederacy.
		In August of 1864 the Rappahannock`s crew was discharged, with only Lt. Shyrock remaining aboard.Early in 1865 Lt Shryock was ordered to report to the CSS Stonewall.
		The CSS Stonewall was originally called the Sphinx, and had been built at Bordeaux, France by L. Arman, for Commander Bulloch.
	www.csa-dixie.com /liverpool_dixie/shryock.htm (411 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-Letters-CSS Rappahannock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The book will be sold at the gift shop with all proceeds to the ship.
		I would like to include this photo in my booklet in the chapter on Fauntleroy.
		I would be happy to put a credit line to you or whoever I need to to make this happen.
	www.ahoy.tk-jk.net /Letters/CSSRappahannock.html (225 words)

	Alexandrians aided war effort
		Naval officer French Forrest served as commander of the Gosport navy yard while the CSS Virginia was being constructed, and later commanded the James River squadron.
		His son Douglas served with the 17th Virginia before accepting duty as a paymaster and assignment to the raider CSS Rappahannock, which spent the war in Calais awaiting France's permission to sail.
		William Orton Williams, one-time suitor for the hand of Agnes Lee, was hanged as a spy after being captured in Federal uniform behind enemy lines near Franklin, Tenn., in June 1863.
	fredericksburg.com /News/FLS/2005/102005/10012005/133294/printer_friendly (1047 words)

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