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  Confederate States Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Confederate States Navy (CSN) was the naval branch of the Confederate States armed forces established by an act of the Confederate Congress on February 21, 1861 responsible for Confederate naval operations during the American Civil War.
The two major tasks of the Confederate Navy during the whole of its existence were the protection of Southern harbors and coastlines from outside invasion and making the war extremely costly for the North by attacking merchant ships and breaking the Union Blockade.
On May 6, the Confederate Congress passed "An act recognizing the existence of war between the United States and the Confederate States, and concerning letters of marque, prizes, and prize goods." And on May 14, 1861 "An act regulating the sale of prizes and the distribution thereof," was also passed.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Confederate_States_Navy   (1688 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Confederate States of America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Confederate States were formed on February 4, 1861, by six Southern slave states (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana) after confirmation of the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States.
The Confederate military leadership was almost entirely composed of veterans from the United States Army and U.S. Navy who had resigned their federal commissions and had been appointed to senior positions in the Confederate armed forces.
The Confederate officer corps was composed mostly of southern gentry, and the Confederacy appointed junior and field grade officers by election from the enlisted ranks.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Confederate_States_of_America   (2678 words)

  
 Confederate States of America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Confederate States of America (also referred to as the Confederacy, Confederate States, and CSA) was the government formed by eleven southern states of the USA between 1861 and 1865.
When Robert E. Lee and the other Confederate generals surrendered their armies in the spring of 1865, the CSA collapsed and slaves were freed.
The Confederate Congress responded to the hostilities by formally declaring war on the United States in May 1861--calling it "The War between the Confederate States of America and the United States of America." The Union government never declared war but conducted its war efforts under a proclamation of blockade and rebellion by President Lincoln.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Confederate_States_of_America   (4872 words)

  
 Flags of the Confederate States of America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Secretary of Navy, Stephen Mallory, issued regulations on May 26, 1863 which modified the Second National Flag for shipboard use, using a shorter 1.5:1 ratio than the 2:1 ratio adopted by Congress for the national flag.
On April 12, 2000, the South Carolina state senate passed a bill to remove the flag of the former Confederate States of America from on top of the statehouse dome by a majority vote of 36 to 7.
The Confederate Battle Flag became a part of the Mississippi state flag in 1894, whereupon a strange series of events ensued.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Confederate_flag   (2484 words)

  
 Confederate States of America - tScholars.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Confederate States of America were formed on February 4, 1861, by six Southern states (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana) after confirmation of the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States.
Settlers there petitioned the Confederate government for annexation of their lands, prompting an expedition in which territory south of the 34th parallel was governed by the Confederacy.
Confederate States troops briefly occupied the territorial capital of Santa Fe between March 13 and April 8, 1862.
www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Confederate_States_of_America   (3589 words)

  
 The Organization Of The Confederate Navy
An additional obstacle in the path of the formation of a Confederate navy was the fact that the great powers of Europe issued proclamations of neutrality almost immediately after the first gun had been fired at Fort Sumter, and the lesser powers soon followed the lead of the greater ones.
The men enlisted in the navy who could not be sent to sea were usually assigned to garrison the forts on the coast and along the rivers, while at times they were called upon to serve in the field with the regular army.
The pay of the officers of the Confederate navy was based on a sliding scale, regulated by the length of service and the occupation of the officer, as was the law in the Federal service.
www.civilwarhome.com /confederatenavy.htm   (2880 words)

  
 Straight Dope Staff Report: Was the "Confederate flag" only the flag of the Confederate navy?
For example, after assuming command of the Confederate Army of Tennessee, Gen. Joseph Johnston in the spring of 1864 directed that uniform rectangle battle flags be issued to regiments in his command.
Even though the actual Confederate Battle Flag was overwhelmingly square in dimensions, flag companies in the late 19th century began producing souvenir versions in rectangle format--presumably to match the format used for the U.S. flag.
At the turn of the century, a Confederate veterans' association began complaining that latter-day versions of the battle flag misrepresented its appearance and attempted to set the record straight in reports and publications.
www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mconfederate.html   (785 words)

  
 USFlag.org: A website dedicated to the Flag of the United States of America - Confederate Stars and Bars
Although less well known than the "Confederate Battle Flags",the Stars and Bars was used as the official flag of the Confederacy from March 1861 to May of 1863.
It was carried by Confederate troops in the field which were the vast majority of forces under the confederacy.
Confederate Navy Jack: Used as a navy jack at sea from 1863 onward.
www.usflag.org /confederate.stars.and.bars.html   (1067 words)

  
 Confederate States of America Naval History
Confederate naval construction would have produced better results if left unmolested; the Union forces, primarily through the blockade and the capture of key ports, denied the South the time it needed to build a strong navy.
The Confederates could have claimed that acquiring warships was not a hostile action but simply the action of an independent country seeking to protect its ports and waters.
Some historians believe that the Confederates were on the verge of gaining European recognition or intervention (by mediation perhaps); if so, even a moderately stronger Confederate navy might have precluded certain key Federal victories in spring 1862 and triggered such intervention or recognition.
www.americancivilwar.com /tcwn/confederate_navy/confederate_navy_buildup.html   (9168 words)

  
 Genesis of the Confederate Navy
The navy department was organized with Stephen R. Mallory, secretary of the navy: Commodore Samuel Barron, chief of the bureau of orders and detail; Commander George Minor, chief of ordnance and hydrography; Paymaster John DeBree, chief of provisions and clothing; Surg.
The Confederate government conferred commissions and warrants upon officers in accordance with their relative rank in the United States navy, and a more regular and satisfactory course of administration was entered upon.
The navy had afloat in November, 1861, the Sumter, the McRae, the Patrick Henry, the Jamestown, the Resolute, the Calhoun, the Ivy, the Lady Davis, the Jackson, the Tuscarora, the Virginia, the Manassas, and some twenty privateers.
www.civilwarhome.com /navygenesis.htm   (1649 words)

  
 Excite - Search: confederate navy
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 The Confederate Navy 1861-1865 (Part 1)
The strategic purpose of the Confederate military during the Civil War was basically twofold: to protect the Southern states from outside invasion, and, failing in the first, to make the war so costly for the North that it would eventually be forced to give up from exhaustion.
The Confederate Navy's responsibility was the protection of the harbors and coast lines from blockade, and, hopefully, the establishment of a local superiority over the Federal Navy.
With the capitulation of the Gosport Navy Yard after the secession of Virginia, the Confederate Navy secured one of the few major navy yards it was to possess.
www.magweb.com /sample/scamp/ca90csn1.htm   (2647 words)

  
 Amazon.com: A History of the Confederate Navy: Books: Raimondo Luraghi,Paolo E. Coletta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
He challenges the popular notion that the Confederate navy was a failure because it did not break the North's blockade.
Confederate Navy Secretary Stephen Mallory, the author shows, thus focused on protecting the Confederacy's inland waterways and controlling the harbors vital for military imports.
The Confederate Navy was one of the most extraordinary enterprises in all of military history.
www.amazon.com /History-Confederate-Navy-Raimondo-Luraghi/dp/1557505276   (1579 words)

  
 1862blackCSN
Black Americans serving in the armed forces of the Confederate States of America is a topic all but unheard of by those with a casual interest in the Civil War.
Johnny Robinson enlisted in the C.S. Navy in early 1863 and served aboard the ironclad warship, CSS Chicora.
William Stanley Hoole, Four Years in the Confederate Navy (Athens GA: University of Georgia Press, 1964), 63, 73; Charles G. Summersell (ed.), The Journal of George Townley Fullam (University of Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1973), 33, 35, 196; Philip Van Doren Stern (ed.), The Confederate Raider Alabama (Gloucester MA: Peter Smith, 1969), 93-94.
www.navyandmarine.org /ondeck/1862blackCSN.htm   (1972 words)

  
 Confederate Navy
That night the Navy Department and all of Richmond were jubilant -- this was the end of the blockade -- the beginning of the end of the Federal navy -- the ports of the South once more open to trade -- and all of the backing of Europe open again.
The "Monitor", the Confederates were forced to admit, was a powerful vessel, scarcely inferior to the "Virginia"; and the Confederates knew there would be many others of the same model built in the North.
The attitude of the Confederate Navy officers on the scene was downright hostile.
users.aol.com /CintiCWRT/csa_nav.html   (6580 words)

  
 Civil War Navy Dispatches
Letters from the commandant navy yard, Norfolk, to major-General Huger, C.S. Army, commanding at Norfolk, suggesting means for defeating communication by signal, regarding the undocking of the C.S.S. Virginia (Merrimack).
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy of the Confederate States to Flag Officer Buchanan, C. Navy, commanding naval defenses, James River, suggesting the attack by the C. Virginia (Merrimack) upon New York City.
The Brooklyn, [New York] navy yard and its magazines and all the lower part of the city would be destroyed, and such an event, by a single ship, would do more to achieve our immediate independence than would the results of many campaigns.
www.wtj.com /archives/acwnavies/cnavy01.htm   (3976 words)

  
 Navy
Southern officers resigned their Union Navy commissions to fight for principle and soon found themselves enmeshed in construction schedules and bureaucratic delays.
Originally published in 1984, this book is the first full account of the European activities of the Confederate navy during the American Civil War.
Seth Ledyard Phelphs and the U.S. Navy, 1841-64.
www.bookguy.com /civilwar/navy.htm   (720 words)

  
 confederate navy - Ask.com Web Search
Among the major tasks of the Navy was breaking the Union blockade of the Confederacy and protecting southern harbors and coastlines...
These include ships of the Confederate States Navy, the navies of the various individual states of the Confederacy, privateers commissioned by...
The navy department was organized with Stephen R. Mallory, secretary of the navy: Commodore Samuel...
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 The Civil War, Slavery, and Reconstruction in Missouri
Shades of Gray: Confederate Soldiers and Veterans of Randolph County, Missouri.
Confederate Veterans of Douglas, Webster and Texas County, Missouri.
Missouri Confederate Reports: Narrative Reports of Casualties After the Battles of Cape Girardeau, Carthage, Hartville, Lexington, Marmaduke's Expedition, 1862-3, Price's Expedition, 1864, Newtonia and Wilson's Creek: Also Included Is the Register of Confederates Who Died in Prisons in Kansas City, Fort Leavenworth and Fort Scott, Kansas.
library.puc.edu /heritage/bib-civilwarmissouri.html   (11558 words)

  
 Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp 1608 - Confederate Navy Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The purpose of the ceremony is to recognize and pay tribute to the men who served in the Confederate States Navy.
Participants will include various Sons of Confederate Veterans camps, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Sons of Union Veterans, several re-enacting groups as well as the general public.
Capt. Waddell commanded the CSS Shenandoah which was the last ship to fly the Confederate flag.
www.mdscv.org /1608/navy_day.htm   (345 words)

  
 US People--Tucker, John Randolph. (1812-1883)
Commander Tucker resigned from the U.S. Navy when Virginia seceded from the Union in April 1861, becoming a Commander in the Virginia Navy and, in June, the Confederate Navy.
During the Federal Navy's attack on the Drewry's Bluff fortifications in May, he commanded one of the defending batteries.
He became commander of the Confederate warships at Charleston in March 1863, remaining in that post until the city fell in February 1865.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/pers-us/uspers-t/jr-tuckr.htm   (435 words)

  
 Confederate Navy
prototype Confederate sub operating in the James River in the autumn of 1861
The Confederate Submarine H.L. Hunley and Charleston, SC
Rawlinson has taken such an interest in this subject as he has access to many materials that are only available in the UK.This is truly an important research project and a treat for anyone interested in the Confederate Navy and those magnificent ships built for the Confederacy by the Laird Shipyards.in Liverpool.
members.aol.com /awill84810/links11.htm   (447 words)

  
 CWN Book Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
While in the Confederate Navy he served on the CSS Savannah, until that vessel was scuttled when Savannah fell, then at Battery Buchanan, part of the Fort Fisher defenses, until that post fell (he escaped from one end while the Yankees were coming in the other end).
While there are a number of journals of Confederate enlisted men in the Army of Tennessee, those from individuals serving in the Florida Coast Guard and Confederate Navy are extremely rare.
The editor is an acknowledged expert of the Confederate Navy and does a superb job of filling in background material for the reader.
www.civilwarnews.com /reviews/bookreviews.cfm?ID=430   (854 words)

  
 Confederate Navy
Admiral Augustus O. Wright, at the urging of fellow members of the United Confederate Veterans, led an initiative in 1921 to obtain military records of approximately 6,000 men who served in the Confederate States Navy.
The lack of surviving original Confederate naval records, and the fact that no Compiled Military Service Records were abstracted for either Union or Confederate naval personnel, compounded the difficulties faced by veterans and their dependents trying to secure state pensions.
The information was compiled primarily from 1924 to 1925 by Captain W. McElroy, Navy Department, United Confederate Veterans.
www.lva.lib.va.us /whatwehave/mil/connavy   (204 words)

  
 Port Columbus - BOOKS > Confederate Navy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Fire & Thunder- Exploits of the Confederate States Navy
Academy on the James- The Confederate Naval School
Gray Thunder, Exploits of the Confederate States Navy
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 WS_FTP\csn\related
Reports from the Official Records of the Navy regarding the battle of the Virginia and the Monitor at Hampton Roads in 1862.
http://www.portcolumbus.org This was the Confederate Naval Museum at Columbus, Georgia on the Chattachoochee River.
This is the CS NAVY portion of Flags of the Confederacy (FOTC) website providing some greatly needed information on the little understood Confederate Flags and etiquette.
www.csnavy.org /related.htm   (1388 words)

  
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The Confederate Navy and the men who fought in it, are distinctive in navel history, not for immensity of a single engagement, but for the diversity of action, the complete realization of the ironclad as a fighting vessel and the development of the torpedo as a weapon of destruction.
The American Civil War began on April 12, 1861 with the shots at Fort Sumter, and officially ended with the raising of the blockade on June 23, 1865.
The Confederate navy used a variety of weapons during the Civil War, some were traditional, and others were completely unique to them, here we try to list the weapons they used.
www.confederatenavy.com   (300 words)

  
 Confederate Navy Yard, Saffold, Georgia site photos
This is the site of the Confederate Navy Yard on the lower Chattahoochee River at Saffold, Georgia.
This is a modern sign at the entrance to the navy yard area.
Trapped in the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River system by obstructions placed across the river by the Confederate Army, she never had a chance to sail out into Apalachicola Bay and engage the Federal blockaders.
www.civilwaralbum.com /misc2/saffold_georgia1.htm   (324 words)

  
 Confederate States Navy
(a part of the Navy) and to make this a one stop information center for serious researchers and anyone who will help promote the knowledge around the world of these currently unknown Confederate heros.
or you are a CS Navy or Marine re-enactor or historian, let us know.
Read these Words from Confederate Navy Officers, Seamen, and the Founder.
www.csnavy.org   (569 words)

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