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    CSS Georgia was a screw steamer of the Confederate States Navy, acquired in 1863, and captured by the Union Navy in 1864. The ship was built in 1862 as...
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  • the name CSS Georgia, after Georgia: CSS Georgia (1862), a screw steamer acquired in 1863, and captured by the Union Navy in 1864 CSS Georgia (1863), an...
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  • "Georgia", by Brittany Howard from Jaime, 2019 CSS Georgia (1862), merchant ship completed in 1862 and commissioned as a warship in 1863 CSS Georgia (1863)...
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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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    28, 1862 CSS Champion, side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862 CSS Curlew CSS Ellis CSS Fanny CSS George Page CSS Governor Moore CSS Grampus...
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    CSS Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built in 1862 for the Confederate States Navy. The vessel was built in Birkenhead on the River Mersey opposite Liverpool...
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    CSS Nashville was a brig-rigged, side-paddle-wheel passenger steamer that served with the Confederate Navy during the Civil War. Originally a United States...
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    Siege of Fort Pulaski (category 1862 in Georgia (U.S. state))
    1862 Official Records, Armies, op.cit. Chap. XV. March 1, 1862. p. 403 Official Records, Armies, op.cit. Chap. XV. March 3, 1862, p. 34 CSS Georgia:...
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    for his service as Captain of the CSS Teaser, part of the James River Squadron, during the Battle of Hampton Roads (1862). In 1863, his orders sent him to...
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    CSS Alabama's New England Expeditionary Raid commenced shortly after the Confederate States Navy ship CSS Alabama left the Azores and cruised west toward...
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  • Minnesota CSS Sumter a Confederate Navy vessel in the American Civil War USS Sumter (1862), the former CSS General Sumter, a cottonclad ram captured in 1862 USS Sumter (APA-52)...
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    CSS Chattahoochee was a twin-screw steam powered gunboat built at Saffold, Georgia; she was christened for the river upon which she was built. The gunboat...
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    CSS Tuscaloosa was an ironclad warship that served in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Construction began in May 1862, under...
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    CSS Florida was a sloop-of-war in the service of the Confederate States Navy. She served as a commerce raider during the American Civil War before being...
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  • CSS Raleigh was a steam-powered Civil War casemate ironclad. She was fitted with a spar torpedo instead of an iron ram and was built in 1863–1864 by the...
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  • South Carolina and Georgia. On November 5–6, 1861, Savannah, flying Tattnall's flag, in company with CSS Resolute, CSS Sampson, and CSS Lady Davis, offered...
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    CSS Muscogee was an casemate ironclad built in Columbus, Georgia for the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Her original paddle configuration...
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    Confederate Patent Office (category 1862 establishments in the Confederate States of America)
    known as the CSS Virginia. Confederate States Patent #60 was granted to Jacob B. and William L. Platt of Augusta, Georgia on January 7, 1862 for "Camp Cots...
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    located in Mobile Bay in 1989, but the find has not been confirmed. "CSS Gaines (1862-1864)". Gaines, W. Craig (2008). Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks...
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    America, in 1862, CSS Atlanta, USS Atlanta. Navy Heritage Archived April 7, 2010, at the Library of Congress Web Archives, in 1863 the ironclad CSS Savannah...
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    commander of the CSS McRae was wounded on April 24, 1862, Read took command of the ship. Read then served as executive officer of the CSS Arkansas during...
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    were cast in 1861 with the remainder in 1862. Two of the earliest were mounted on the broadside of the ironclad CSS Virginia. Two were mounted fore and aft...
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    SS Tennessee (also named CSS Tennessee, USS Tennessee, and USS Mobile for a time), lost in a hurricane off the coast of Georgia in October 1865, en route...
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    the Confederate States Navy, and subsequently was taken into that Navy as CSS Water Witch. Water Witch was launched by the Washington Navy Yard in 1851...
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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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    engagement between the Miami and Southfield against the Confederate ironclad CSS Albemarle. In that action, Flusser personally fired a cannon shell at the...
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    of the gunboat CSS Ellis, 1861–1862 The Command flag of Captain William F. Lynch, flown as ensign of his flagship, CSS Seabird, 1862 Pennant of Admiral...
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  • Columbus, Kentucky. He was appointed lieutenant, March 18, 1862, serving at New Orleans on the CSS Louisiana. Following the Battle of Forts Jackson and St...
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    CSS Atlanta was preparing to attack wooden blockader Cimarron, Du Pont ordered Weehawken, Captain John Rodgers, and Nahant to Wassaw Sound, Georgia to...
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    Battle of Cherbourg, or sometimes the Battle off Cherbourg or the Sinking of CSS Alabama, was a single-ship action fought during the American Civil War between...
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