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Tag Archives: CSS Florida
Repurposing Captured Enemy Vessels Part 3: US Vessels Flying the Confederate Flag
In Part 1 of this four-part series, I examined how the United States was able to capture and repurpose three Confederate ironclad warships. In Part 2, I continued that examination, expanding it to examine wooden vessels of the Confederacy captured … Continue reading
Posted in Navies, Weapons
Tagged Archer, Atchafalaya River, Caleb Cushing, Charles W. Read, Clarence, CSS Florida, CSS Tuscaloosa, CSS Virginia, David D. Porter, Fort DeRussey, John B. Magruder, Leon Smith, Repurposing Captured Enemy Vessels, Tacony, Texas Maritime Department, USS Harriet Lane, USS Queen of the West, USS Westfield
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Unpublished — The International War: Alabama Claims Documentation
This source is not exactly unpublished, but close. It was printed once—long ago—by the U. S. government. Until recently, it was scarce and mostly unknown. And it is a treasure trove of primary source material for the international and naval … Continue reading
What Did They Know?
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Dwight Hughes When considering historical events, it is too easy to wonder, given what happened, why in the world our ancestors did what they did. But we must remember that they … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Navies, Personalities, Politics, Sesquicentennial
Tagged Albert Edward, Alexander Stephens, Army of the James, Atlanta Campaign, Battle of Franklin, Battle of Nashville, Charleston South Carolina, CSS Florida, CSS Shenandoah, George B. McClellan, George Thomas, James Longstreet, James Waddell, John Bell Hood, Jubal Early, March to the Sea, Mobile, Osprey, P.G.T. Beauregard, Petersburg, Philip Sheridan, Robert E. Lee, Selma, Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Tallahassee, Ulysse S. Grant, William T. Sherman
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Strategy Afloat: Commerce Raiding
November 6 is an important date in the history of one of the Civil War’s most successful commerce raiders, the CSS Shenandoah. This day 150 years ago she took the second of her 38 victims; exactly a year later she … Continue reading
Civil War Echoes: Erich Raeder’s Navy
Raphael Semmes published his Memoirs of Service Afloat During The War Between The States in 1869, providing a far-ranging discussion of the Confederate naval war and his role in it as a commerce raider, squadron commander, and field commander. This … Continue reading
Posted in Navies, Ties to the War, Weapons
Tagged Bernhard Rogge, Bismarck, Confederate Navy, CSS Alabama, CSS Florida, CSS Shenandoah, Erich Raeder, Germany, Graf Spee, Kaiser Wilhelm, Norway, Raphael Semmes, Tirpitz
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