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    CSS Wilmington was an unnamed casemate ironclad built for the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. The ship was never officially named...
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  • CSS Raleigh may refer to: CSS Raleigh (1861) was a gunboat that served as a tender to CSS Virginia during the Battle of Hampton Roads CSS Raleigh (1864)...
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    the Fargo class, USS Wilmington (CL-111), was laid down in March 1945, but suspended in August and later scrapped. CSS Wilmington, a casemate ironclad...
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    1864. Owl, sister to CSS Bat, was more fortunate than her twin which followed her closely. Owl succeeded in running into Wilmington, North Carolina sometime...
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    CSS Chickamauga, originally the blockade runner Edith, was purchased by the Confederate States Navy at Wilmington, North Carolina, in September 1864....
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  • shipyard J. L. Cassidey & Sons. CSS Raleigh was one of two Richmond-class ironclads built for the Confederate Navy at Wilmington during the Civil War. A total...
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    fifth United States Navy ship to bear the name Hornet. She was originally CSS Lady Stirling, a blockade runner built by James Ash at Cubitt Town, London...
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    1862 CSS Virginia II, steam sloop, ironclad, destroyed: April 4, 1865 CSS Wilmington, twin-screw steamer, ironclad gunboat, destroyed before completion:...
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    CSS Georgia, also known as State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram, was an ironclad warship built in Savannah, Georgia in 1862 during the American Civil War...
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  • CSS North Carolina was a casemate ironclad built for the Confederate Navy in 1863 during the American Civil War by Berry & Brothers at Wilmington, North...
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  • The CSS Beaufort (/ˈbjuːfərt/ BEW-fert) was an iron-hull gunboat that served in North Carolina and Virginia during the American Civil War. Originally...
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    CSS Squib, also known as CSS Infanta, was a Squib-class torpedo boat that served in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Squib was...
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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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  • Thumbnail for CSS Robert E. Lee
    CSS Robert E. Lee was a fast paddle-steamer, originally built as a Glasgow-Belfast packet boat named Giraffe, which was bought as a blockade runner for...
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    CSS Sumter, converted from the 1859-built merchant steamer Habana, was the first steam cruiser of the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil...
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    USS Santiago de Cuba off Wilmington, North Carolina. Renamed USS Frolic in 1865. CS Eagle, a Spofford & Tileston steamship. CSS Flamingo, three stacked...
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  • County, Delaware, with a Wilmington postal address. The school is administrated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wilmington. It is accredited by the Middle...
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  • CSS Arctic was a Confederate ironclad floating battery converted from USS Arctic at Wilmington, North Carolina in 1862. Confederate forces seized USS Arctic...
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  • in Wilmington, North Carolina USS North Carolina (SSN-777) is a Virginia-class submarine commissioned in 2008 and currently in service See also CSS North...
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    John Ancrum Winslow (category People from Wilmington, North Carolina)
    off Cherbourg, France, with the Confederate sea raider CSS Alabama. Although born in Wilmington, North Carolina, Winslow was a member of the old New England...
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    breaking the Union blockade. Four vessels of the class – CSS Hornet, CSS Wasp, CSS Squib, and CSS Scorpion – were constructed in Richmond, Virginia, in 1864...
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    he was given command of the blockade runner CSS Owl. On October 3, Owl escaped to sea from Wilmington; the blockaders wounded her captain and several...
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    November 7, 1864 finally passing into the safety of Wilmington harbor. The Olustee was renamed the CSS Chameleon with Lt. John Wilkinson (CSN) commanding...
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    Commons has media related to CSS Atlanta (ship, 1861). Various photos and drawings of Atlanta List of prisoners from the CSS Atlanta on June 17, 1863 "Rebel...
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    America. During an engagement with the disguised Confederate commerce raider, CSS Alabama, she was taken by surprise and was sunk off the coast of Galveston...
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    Story of the CSS Virginia". In Holzer, Harold; Mulligan, Tim (eds.). The Battle of Hampton Roads: New Perspectives on the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia. New...
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    Roads, Virginia, intended for use as a ram against the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia. Commodore Vanderbilt, himself, suggested filling the bow of the...
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    sailed for Southampton, England, under orders to capture or sink the cruiser CSS Nashville. Nashville had run the Union blockade on 21 October and docked...
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    June 1863, Rear Admiral Du Pont had received reports CSS Atlanta was about to descend the Wilmington River for a foray into Wassaw Sound and ordered monitors...
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    of smokeless anthracite to CSS Tallahassee (a raiding cruiser) so that none was left for Advance to run out of Wilmington safely. Writing on 3 January...
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