• Thumbnail for CSS Ivy
    CSS Ivy was a sidewheel steamer and privateer purchased by Commodore Lawrence Rousseau for service with the Confederate States Navy, and chosen by Commodore...
    12 KB (1,293 words) - 18:24, 26 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for CSS Manassas
    privateer after she was captured by another privateer (later gunboat) CSS Ivy. Her fitting out as Manassas was completed at Algiers, Louisiana; her conversion...
    12 KB (1,201 words) - 22:55, 17 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for H. L. Hunley
    H. L. Hunley (redirect from CSS H.L. Hunley)
    H. L. Hunley, also known as the Hunley, CSS H. L. Hunley, or CSS Hunley, was a submarine of the Confederate States of America that played a small part...
    58 KB (6,693 words) - 10:59, 17 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for USS Queen of the West
    sank the Confederate flagship CSS Colonel Lovell. In actions south of Vicksburg, Mississippi, she severely damaged the CSS City of Vicksburg and captured...
    19 KB (1,943 words) - 12:30, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS Atlanta (1861)
    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...
    26 KB (3,031 words) - 22:57, 16 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for List of ships of the Confederate States Navy
    10, 1864 CSS Henry Dodge, cutter, schooner rigged CSS Huntress, side-wheel steamer CSS Isondiga, steamer, burned: December 21, 1864 CSS Ivy, side-wheel...
    46 KB (4,880 words) - 12:16, 6 August 2025
  • Thumbnail for USS Alligator (1862)
    Norfolk Navy Yard was rebuilding as an ironclad ram for the Confederacy (CSS Virginia). The Union Navy's agreement with the Philadelphia shipbuilder specified...
    15 KB (1,706 words) - 23:14, 4 August 2025
  • Thumbnail for CSS Nashville (1853)
    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...
    7 KB (558 words) - 00:48, 18 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for USS Mississippi (1841)
    Brockenborough 28 May: USS Lily 30 May: Margaret and Jessie c. May: CSS Ivy 5 Jun: CSS Stono 17 Jun: USS Atlanta 24 Jun: USS Sumpter 6 Jul: Pride of the...
    10 KB (1,039 words) - 00:10, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for James Buchanan Eads
    ironclads St. Louis and Essex fought the Confederate gunboats CSS General Polk, CSS Ivy, and CSS Jackson at Lucas Bend, on the Mississippi River. Subsequently...
    21 KB (2,350 words) - 19:35, 9 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for USS Wyoming (1859)
    during the American Civil War. Sent to the Pacific Ocean to search for the CSS Alabama, Wyoming eventually came upon the shores of Japan and engaged Japanese...
    19 KB (2,687 words) - 22:29, 23 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for USS South Carolina (1860)
    joined the USS Vincennes in pursuit of the CSS Ivy up the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi. She fired on the Ivy, and one other Confederate steamer, but...
    6 KB (661 words) - 17:41, 8 August 2025
  • Thumbnail for USS Weehawken (1862)
    Wassaw Sound, Georgia, on 10 June to block the expected sortie of ironclad CSS Atlanta. The Confederate ram and two escort steamers showed themselves early...
    9 KB (865 words) - 19:52, 22 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for USS Choctaw (1856)
    Brockenborough 28 May: USS Lily 30 May: Margaret and Jessie c. May: CSS Ivy 5 Jun: CSS Stono 17 Jun: USS Atlanta 24 Jun: USS Sumpter 6 Jul: Pride of the...
    4 KB (402 words) - 17:35, 8 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for USS Hatteras (1861)
    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...
    13 KB (1,503 words) - 23:16, 20 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for American Diver
    Brockenborough 28 May: USS Lily 30 May: Margaret and Jessie c. May: CSS Ivy 5 Jun: CSS Stono 17 Jun: USS Atlanta 24 Jun: USS Sumpter 6 Jul: Pride of the...
    4 KB (355 words) - 05:17, 27 January 2025
  • range and opened fire once more. That brief cannonade broke the shaft of CSS Defiance and damaged her so severely that her crew later had to abandon and...
    7 KB (762 words) - 15:16, 27 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Star of the West
    Orleans, where Louisiana Governor Thomas Overton Moore changed its name to CSS St. Philip. The old name persisted, however, and Star of the West served...
    10 KB (1,241 words) - 17:06, 13 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for USS Keokuk (1862)
    the skills of her Black pilot, Robert Smalls, a former slave and pilot of CSS Planter. Her crew kept her afloat through the night, but when a breeze came...
    13 KB (1,445 words) - 03:41, 16 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Battle of the Head of Passes
    Carolina and the Vincennes were sent in pursuit of the pestiferous CSS Ivy. Even though the Ivy was joined by another rebel steamer, both were driven up the...
    20 KB (2,695 words) - 21:45, 22 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Spanish frigate Petronila
    Brockenborough 28 May: USS Lily 30 May: Margaret and Jessie c. May: CSS Ivy 5 Jun: CSS Stono 17 Jun: USS Atlanta 24 Jun: USS Sumpter 6 Jul: Pride of the...
    12 KB (1,051 words) - 11:47, 29 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for USS Bainbridge (1842)
    Jan: USS India, USS Timor 7 Feb: CSS Curlew 8 Feb: CSS Sea Bird 10 Feb: CSS Appomattox, CSS Black Warrior, CSS Fanny, CSS Forrest 20 Feb: USS Isaac N. Seymour...
    5 KB (385 words) - 16:41, 23 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS Great Britain
    Brockenborough 28 May: USS Lily 30 May: Margaret and Jessie c. May: CSS Ivy 5 Jun: CSS Stono 17 Jun: USS Atlanta 24 Jun: USS Sumpter 6 Jul: Pride of the...
    75 KB (8,391 words) - 18:48, 20 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Chesapeake Affair
    settled in Halifax. Among the most prominent were John Wilkinson (commander of CSS Chickamauga), Thomas Edgeworth Courtenay, and John Taylor Wood. Military...
    18 KB (2,124 words) - 20:06, 10 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS Sciota (1861)
    Brockenborough 28 May: USS Lily 30 May: Margaret and Jessie c. May: CSS Ivy 5 Jun: CSS Stono 17 Jun: USS Atlanta 24 Jun: USS Sumpter 6 Jul: Pride of the...
    11 KB (1,094 words) - 00:26, 18 April 2025
  • Brockenborough 28 May: USS Lily 30 May: Margaret and Jessie c. May: CSS Ivy 5 Jun: CSS Stono 17 Jun: USS Atlanta 24 Jun: USS Sumpter 6 Jul: Pride of the...
    5 KB (531 words) - 12:47, 30 March 2024
  • abandon New Madrid. That night, Pontchartrain, along with McRae, the gunboat CSS Ivy, and several transports, took Confederate troops, supplies, and weapons...
    14 KB (1,472 words) - 01:11, 3 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for USRC Harriet Lane
    Brockenborough 28 May: USS Lily 30 May: Margaret and Jessie c. May: CSS Ivy 5 Jun: CSS Stono 17 Jun: USS Atlanta 24 Jun: USS Sumpter 6 Jul: Pride of the...
    23 KB (2,881 words) - 15:00, 15 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for HMS Ajax (1809)
    Brockenborough 28 May: USS Lily 30 May: Margaret and Jessie c. May: CSS Ivy 5 Jun: CSS Stono 17 Jun: USS Atlanta 24 Jun: USS Sumpter 6 Jul: Pride of the...
    10 KB (1,013 words) - 20:26, 2 March 2025
  • cause confusion. McRae followed the fire rafts, with the sidewheel steamer CSS Ivy and Tuscarora not far behind. Tuscarora ran aground during the battle,...
    13 KB (1,321 words) - 20:32, 3 August 2025