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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 initial goal of the Confederate Navy was to establish superiority to, or at least achieve equality with, the Union Navy.
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   (1612 words)

  
 Confederate States of America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Confederate States troops briefly occupied the territorial capital of Santa Fe between March 13 and April 8, 1862.
Based to a certain extent on both the Articles of Confederation and on the United States Constitution, it reflected a stronger philosophy of states' rights, curtailing the power of the central authority, and also contained explicit protection of the institution of slavery, though international slave trading was prohibited.
The legislative branch of the Confederate States of America was the Confederate Congress.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Confederate_States_of_America   (4030 words)

  
 Confederate States Navy
The Confederate States Navy was established by an act of the Confederate Congress on February 21, 1861.
Confederate records alone show that 60% of the arms carried by her troops in the field were imported.
The Confederate navy commissioned and put to sea eight cruisers during the war, whose purpose was to hunt down and destroy Northern-owned merchant ships and their cargoes.
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 Confederate States Navy: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/confederate_states_navy.htm   (915 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America (CSA, also known as the Confederacy) was the political entity originally formed on February 4, 1861 by six Southern slave states (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana).
The Confederate military leadership was almost entirely composed of veterans from the United States Army and U.S. Navy who had resigned from their U.S. ranks and had been appointed to senior positions in the Confederate armed forces.
The Confederate officer corps was composed mostly of southern aristocrats, and the Confederacy appointed junior and field grade officers by election from the enlisted ranks.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America   (1745 words)

  
 United States Passage @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Later, the United States Constitution was ratified by the Constitutional Convention in 1787 to establish a federal union of sovereign states and the federal government to operate that union.
At the time, the Northern states were opposed to the expansion of slavery, while the Southern states saw the opposition as an attack on their way of life, since their economy, especially the cotton industry, was so dependent on slave labor.
The post-war era in the United States was defined internationally by the beginning of the Cold War in the late 1940s, when the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) attempted to expand their own global influence, with the U.S. representing democracy and capitalism, and the USSR Communism and a centrally planned economy.
www.launchbase.net /encyclopedia/United_States   (4867 words)

  
 Confederate Navy
The Government of the Confederate States of America got underway in the spring of 1861, totally unprepared from a naval standpoint to uphold the independence it had declared.
Confederate cruisers proved venturesome and successful in weakening the North’s war effort by damaging her trade, and luring Union ships from the blockade to facilitate the passage of runners.
NEUSE CSS NEUSE was a steam sloop built in 1863-64 for the Confederate Navy by Elliot Smith and Co. at Kinston, N.C., on the Neuse River.
www.civilwarhistory.com /navy/CSSNavy.htm   (4312 words)

  
 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)

  
 M217 Confederate States of America. Medical Records.
The medical needs of the Confederate States Navy were partially met by an act of organization (March 16, 1861) which provided for the appointment of five surgeons and five assistant surgeons; such personnel would become officers in the naval program.
It provided for hospitals to "be known and numbered as hospitals of a particular state," thus allowing soldiers from a certain state to be put in the hospital representing their state to keep the units together.
Confederate hospital personnel named in this manuscript include Francis W. Hancock, surgeon in charge of Jackson Hospital in Richmond; William A. Carrington, the Confederate States Medical Director and Inspector of Hospitals; Edwin S. Guillard, Medical Inspector; and James Mercer Green, the medical officer in charge of the hospitals in Macon, Georgia.
www.lib.usm.edu /~archives/m217text.htm   (1518 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.
Most of the Confederate States Marine Corps records were intentionally destroyed at the end of the war, less they fall into enemy hands.
Johnny Robinson enlisted in the C.S. Navy in early 1863 and served aboard the ironclad warship, CSS Chicora.
www.navyandmarine.org /ondeck/1862blackCSN.htm   (1972 words)

  
 Label Sheet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hester was held by the British authorities at Gibraltar, and, after some correspondence with the Confederate authorities, the British sent him aboard the Shannon, to Bermuda, where it was hoped he would be allowed to be brought through the blockade, for trial in the Confederate States.
One naval officer of high moral standing, Commander Beverly Kennon, in communication with officers of the Union Navy, in July, 1865, advised them of the location of two torpedoes (mines) which were buried on the roadside in the yard of a Southern lady, situated about a mile from the mouth of Potomac Creek, Virginia.
He further stated that the woman had five children, including the oldest son, a 15 year old, who would show the authorities where the torpedoes were buried.
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 Reminiscences Of The Confederate States Navy
Captain C. When I received intelligence that my native State, Mississippi, had by the sovereign will of her people, severed her connection with the American Union, I was serving as a midshipman on board the United States steam frigate "Powhatan," then stationed at Vera Cruz, Mexico.
Captain Semmes was untiring in his efforts to get his vessel ready for sea, and finally threw his guns aboard in a half fitted state, started down the river, and in a few days was on the ocean destroying the commerce of the enemy.
The Governor Moore, of the "Louisiana navy" was in charge of Lieutenant Kennon, formerly of the navy.
www.civilwarhome.com /reminiscencescsn.htm   (12597 words)

  
 Civil War: Navy
Confederate States Navy Research Guide: Confederate Naval Imprints Described and Annotated, Chronology of Naval Operation and Administration, Marine Corps and Naval Officer Biographies, Description and Service of Vessels, Subject Bibliography: Specifically Compiled for Collectors, Historians, and Librarians.
History of the Confederate States Navy from its Organization to the Surrender of its Last Vessel.
Southern Thunder: Exploits of the Confederate States Navy.
book-smith.tripod.com /civ-war-navy.html   (359 words)

  
 Museum exhibits Confederate Navy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In addition to highlighting the Confederate Navy's role as the leader in advancing naval technology, the exhibit will point out the accomplishments of this small Navy that surprised its opponents and silenced its critics.
It is this unheralded Navy that kept U.S. forces from reaching Richmond via the James River and from reaching Charleston and Savannah.
The last Confederate flag to be struck was thus lowered not in the United States but in England on the CSS Shenandoah.
www.dcmilitary.com /navy/tester/10_10/features/33708-1.html   (824 words)

  
 Wm. R. Cline: The Ironclad Ram Virginia-Confederate States Navy
The Merrimac was a United States frigate, burned, scuttled, and sunk at Gosport navyyard in 1861.
We lightened her all we could, until her shield was out of the water and she was in no condition to fight.
Before this, however, all hands were called to quarters and Commodore Tatnall, stating the condition of affairs, said all hands must work with a will to lighten the ship.
cssvirginia.org /vacsn4/original/cw04shsp.htm   (2247 words)

  
 Navy & Marine Living History Association
Copyright © MMIV by the Navy and Marine Living History Association, Inc. All rights reserved, worldwide.
The International Society of Navy and Marine Reenactors, Inc.
Navy & Marine Living History Association, NMLHA, and the NMLHA logo are trademarks of NMLHA Corporation.
www.navyandmarine.org   (189 words)

  
 Bugg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1898, the Naval Records and Library of the US Navy Department issued the publication Register of Officers of the Confederate States Navy, 1861-1865, compiled from US and CS navy registers, reports of officers, records of the office of the Secretary of the Navy, and other miscellaneous papers.
Amongst the Pilots listed in the register is one William (Billy) Bugg, appointed in the Confederate States Navy from the state of Georgia.
Series 2, Volume 1 of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, includes the names of many Naval officers and enlisted men who served in the Confederate States Navy during the war.
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 CSS Patrick Henry
She was assigned to a position near Mulberry Island in the James to protect the right flank of the Confederate Peninsula Army, and during the following months remained vigilant against possible attack by Federal vessels from Newport News.
The Confederate Congress later accorded special thanks to all officers and men for their gallant conduct during the 2-day battle.
Following the outbreak of the Civil War, he resigned his commission in the United States Navy, serving first as a leutenant and eventually as a commander.
cssvirginia.org /vacsn3/crew/phenry   (962 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Fire and Thunder: Exploits of the Confederate States Navy: Books: R. Thomas Campbell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Campbell's final volume on the exploits of the Confederate States Navy is as overtly pro-Southern in sympathies and as romantic-heroic in style as its predecessors.
She was typical of the Confederate navy, which accomplished many notable feats of sea warfare and pure seamanship despite a shoestring budget and the South's wretchedly inadequate industrial base.
As clearly stated in the preface, the objective of the author is extension.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1572490675?v=glance   (1030 words)

  
 biblio
This is an excellent collection of reasons for the participants who resigned to go to the defense of their respective states and eventually the Confederate States of America.
Uniform and Dress of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States.
This is a reprint of the original of 1861 containing many details of the uniforms and will be especially useful to re-enactors for information for the construction of theirs and a good study for historians in general.
www.csnavy.org /biblio.htm   (3757 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.
CSN officers at Beauvior, Biloxi, MS.------Commander------------James River Squadron Marines-------Victoria, Australian Squadron at Taminick
Read these Words from Confederate Navy Officers, Seamen, and the Founder.
www.csnavy.org   (569 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Southern Thunder: Exploits of the Confederate States Navy: Books: R. Thomas Campbell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Southern Thunder: Exploits Of The Confederate States Navy describes (in great detail) battles and engagements fought by the southern navy against a well equipped and relentless foe.
The Confederate navy had been greatly ignored in the accounts of the War Between the States, Southern Thunder uses selected episodes to tell the fascinating story of the many victories and defeats of the South's navy, as it struggled with sparse resources against unbelievable odds.
It almost seems as though the Confederate Navy was successfully battling the mighty Union Navy with only chewing gum, shoe strings, and cast-off wood.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1572490292?v=glance   (607 words)

  
 Body   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
During her research, Ellen was able to obtain, from the record groups of the National Archives, copies of three pages listing the names of a number of men from the Army of Northern Virginia who had transferred over to Naval service in April, 1864.
During the course of the war, the Confederate Navy was constantly demanding an increase in strength, but was never really able to achieve the numbers required.
A large percentage of her personnel were obtained from the ranks of the Confederate Army.
hub.dataline.net.au /~tfoen/transfers.htm   (656 words)

  
 Confederate States Navy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This Ship Is Reported to Have Been Built by the Voluntary Sale of the Jewelry of Southern Ladies, at a Cost of $1,500,000.
The front side of the plate leaf presents a fine view of "The Gatling Gun or Battery," which was patented on November 4, 1862.
Capable of firing 150 to 200 balls per minute at a range of up to a mile and a quarter, this new weapon was on exhibition with the Confederate ram Atlanta.
www.history.navy.mil /library/anh/csnavy.htm   (267 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   (212 words)

  
 History and Heritage - Confederate Ironclad
It was the first ironclad built in Wilmington and the largest ship built at Berry and Brothers, renamed the Confederate Navy Yard.
She had two gun ports on each of her four sides and carried six 8-inch guns that could be moved from one port to another.
However, her service was hampered because she was outfitted with old, defective engines confiscated from the United States' tug UNCLE BEN.
www.battleshipnc.com /history/ironclad.php   (407 words)

  
 CD34 REGISTER OF OFFICERS OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES NAVY 1861--1865 on CD rom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
An important reference for anyone interested in the Civil War, Confederate States of America, or Naval history.
Using all available sources, this book brings together in an alphabetical list all known Confederate Navy Officers, over 1700 individuals.
For each person, the place of birth is given (if known), along with the state from which appointed.
www.historybroker.com /cds/cd34.htm   (272 words)

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