CSS Selma was a steamship in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. She served in the Confederate Navy first as Florida, and later...
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Navy while in port in Bahia, Brazil in October 1864 The gunboat CSS Selma was named CSS Florida prior to July 1862. USS Florida This article includes a list...
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in 1867 for scrap. Tennessee was built at Selma, Alabama, where she was commissioned on February 16, 1864. CSS Baltic towed her to Mobile, where she was...
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gunboat CSS Morgan in the Mobile Squadron from March 7, 1862. Murphey assumed command of the gunboat CSS Selma in July 1862, and was wounded when Selma was...
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authors have confused her with the Mobilian CSS Florida who did not receive her name CSS Selma until July 1862. CSS Florida of New Orleans was one of 14 steamers...
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maintained a heavy fire on Fort Morgan and Confederate gunboats, capturing CSS Selma. Metacomet then rescued survivors from Union monitor Tecumseh, sunk by...
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and CSS Selma in Mobile Bay. During the American Civil War's final year, while assigned to the Mobile Squadron, he commanded the ironclads CSS Baltic...
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List of ships of the Confederate States Navy (redirect from CSS Yazoo)
17, 1865 CSS Sea Bird, side-wheel river steamer, sunk: February 10, 1862 CSS Selma, side-wheel river steamer, captured: August 5, 1864 CSS Spray, steam...
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Battle of Mobile Bay (section Clash with CSS Tennessee)
the bay: CSS Selma, carrying four guns; Morgan, with six guns; and Gaines, also with six guns. In addition to these was the ironclad ram CSS Tennessee...
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were cast by Selma and four by Tredegar in 1864. Two survive, one of which is a trophy from CSS Columbia in the Washington Navy Yard. Selma cast twelve...
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ironclads, including the CSS Huntsville, CSS Phoenix, CSS Tennessee, and CSS Tuscaloosa were laid at the Confederate Navy Yard there. CSS Nashville was also...
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a paymaster in the Confederate States Navy, serving aboard the CSS Selma (1856) and CSS Alert and was subsequently taken prisoner following the Battle...
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The CSS Huntsville and CSS Tuscaloosa Historic and Archaeological District is a shipwreck site in the Mobile River near Mobile, Alabama, United States...
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CSS Huntsville was a Confederate ironclad floating battery built at Selma, Alabama, from 1862 to 1863 during the American Civil War. Huntsville was ordered...
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Milton Peter U. Murphey (1810–1876), naval officer and captain of the CSS Selma during the Civil War Haw River Valley AVA, wine region partially located...
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the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. He assumed command of CSS Virginia during the Battle of Hampton Roads and engaged USS Monitor in the...
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Bennett (grounded and abandoned) CSS Morgan (863-ton side-wheel gunboat) — Commander George W. Harrison CSS Selma (320-ton side-wheel gunboat) — Lieutenant...
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be supplied by a developing foundry at Selma. This time frame was not met. Tuscaloosa and her sister ship CSS Huntsville are considered to be Huntsville-class...
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CSS Phoenix was a Confederate ironclad floating battery built at Selma, Alabama, from 1863–64. Phoenix was built at the Confederate Naval Works at Selma...
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CSS Pamlico was a sidewheel steamer that served in the Confederate States Navy during the early stages of the American Civil War. Originally a passenger...
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into the bay, engaged and captured the Confederate ram CSS Tennessee and the gunboat CSS Selma. Octorara received 17 hits during the engagement. Her casualties...
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Thomas P. Pelot in command. CSS Selma | Confederate States Navy | 5 August 1864 Captured at Battle of Mobile Bay. CSS Tennessee | Confederate States...
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one well-placed shot with the Massachusetts rifled pivot gun, at the CSS Selma in October 1861. It entered the starboard side abaft the engine five feet...
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service at the Battle of Drewry's Bluff as well as his ship construction at Selma, Alabama. Ebenezer Farrand was born in 1803 in New York City. He later moved...
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CSS St. Patrick, a submersible torpedo boat which could "be sunk and raised as desired," was built privately at Selma, Alabama, by John P. Halligan in...
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the two ships were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as C.S.S. Muscogee and Chattahoochee (gunboats). The Georgia Historical Association...
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be supplied by a developing foundry at Selma. This time frame was not met. Tuscaloosa and her sister ship CSS Huntsville are considered to be Huntsville-class...
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Wilson's Raid (category Selma, Alabama)
raid to destroy the arsenal at Selma, Alabama, in conjunction with Maj. Gen. Edward Canby's operations against Mobile. Selma was strategically important...
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of the Sea, Confederate Merchant Raiders During the American Civil War: CSS Alabama. 1862-1864. Captain Raphael Semmes" Gaines, p. 16. Gaines, p. 51...
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supply centers at Selma, Alabama, and Columbus, Georgia. Wilson left Gravelly Springs, Alabama, on March 22, 1865, heading for Selma, a major manufacturing...
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