CSS Maurepas was a sidewheel steamer that briefly served as a gunboat in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Built in 1858 in Indiana...
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CSS Virginia was the first steam-powered ironclad warship built by the Confederate States Navy during the first year of the American Civil War; she was...
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CSS Manassas, formerly the steam icebreaker Enoch Train, was built in 1855 by James O. Curtis as a twin-screw towboat at Medford, Massachusetts. A New...
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General Bragg, CSS General M. Jeff Thompson, CSS General Sterling Price, CSS General Sumter, CSS Little Rebel 16 Jun: CSS Maurepas 26 Jun: CSS General Earl...
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CSS Arkansas was the lead ship of her class of two casemate ironclads built for the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Completed in...
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USS United States (1797) (redirect from CSS United States)
by the Virginia Navy. She was commissioned into the Confederate navy as CSS United States, but was later scuttled by Confederate forces. The U.S. Navy...
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CSS Grampus was a stern-wheel river steamer built in 1856 at McKeesport, Pennsylvania, for civilian employment. Taken by the Confederate Army in early...
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CSS Sea Bird was a sidewheel steamer in the Confederate States Navy. Sea Bird was built at Keyport, New Jersey in 1854, was purchased by North Carolina...
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surviving Civil War-era ironclads in existence: USS Monitor, CSS Neuse, USS Cairo, and CSS Muscogee. Images of USS Cairo USS Cairo in her final resting...
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CSS Jamestown, originally a side-wheel, passenger steamer, was built at New York City in 1853, and seized at Richmond, Virginia in 1861 for the Virginia...
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List of ships of the Confederate States Navy (redirect from CSS Yazoo)
destroyed: April 24, 1862 CSS Livingston, side-wheel steamer, destroyed: June 26, 1862 CSS Macon, steamer CSS Matilda, bark CSS Maurepas, side-wheel steamer...
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warship until the American Civil War, when she was sunk by the ironclad CSS Virginia in battle of Newport News, Virginia, in 1862. Congress was launched...
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CSS Ellis (later USS Ellis) was a gunboat in the Confederate States Navy and the United States Navy during the American Civil War. It was lost during...
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CSS George Page, a 410-ton sidewheel steamship, was originally built as a transport at Washington, D.C. in 1853. She was attached to the Quartermaster's...
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Dispatch. Richmond, Virginia. June 25, 1861. p. 3. Retrieved 18 October 2016. "CSS Plymouth". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department,...
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signal flares to alert the rest of the fleet. The runner proved to be the CSS Georgiana, which was described as the most powerful Confederate cruiser then...
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some sort of support. Davis' answer came in the form of the CSS Pontchartrain and CSS Maurepas, which were dispatched to Little Rock. The state government...
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USS Red Rover (redirect from CSS Red Rover)
General Bragg, CSS General M. Jeff Thompson, CSS General Sterling Price, CSS General Sumter, CSS Little Rebel 16 Jun: CSS Maurepas 26 Jun: CSS General Earl...
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Laurent Millaudon (steamboat) (redirect from CSS General Sterling Price)
American Civil War she was taken into service by the Confederate Navy as CSS General Sterling Price. On 6 June 1862, she was sunk at the First Battle...
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General Bragg, CSS General M. Jeff Thompson, CSS General Sterling Price, CSS General Sumter, CSS Little Rebel 16 Jun: CSS Maurepas 26 Jun: CSS General Earl...
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inflicted many casualties. On the second day of the battle, USS Monitor engaged CSS Virginia, allowing tugs to free Minnesota on the morning of 10 March. Minnesota...
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CSS Mississippi was a projected ironclad warship of the Confederate States Navy, intended to be used on the Mississippi River in the vicinity of New Orleans...
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CSS Oregon was a wooden sidewheel steamer that served as a gunboat in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Built in 1846 for the...
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frigate of the United States Navy. She was the first ship sunk by the ironclad CSS Virginia. Cumberland began in the pages of a Congressional Act. Congress...
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Governor Moore (gunboat) (redirect from CSS Governor Moore)
General Bragg, CSS General M. Jeff Thompson, CSS General Sterling Price, CSS General Sumter, CSS Little Rebel 16 Jun: CSS Maurepas 26 Jun: CSS General Earl...
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USS Planter (1862) (redirect from CSS The Planter)
General Bragg, CSS General M. Jeff Thompson, CSS General Sterling Price, CSS General Sumter, CSS Little Rebel 16 Jun: CSS Maurepas 26 Jun: CSS General Earl...
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movement. Two artillery positions were built, and three ships, including CSS Maurepas, were scuttled to obstruct the river. The Union ships advanced against...
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command of Lieutenant John L. Worden, where she fought the casemate ironclad CSS Virginia (built on the hull of the scuttled steam frigate USS Merrimack)...
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received word of the construction of the Confederate casemate ironclad, CSS Virginia, Congress appropriated $1.5 million on 3 August to build one or...
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CSS Fanny was a small propeller-driven steam tug used by the Confederate States Navy to defend the sounds of northeastern North Carolina in the American...
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