• Thumbnail for CSS Texas (1865)
    fitting out. CSS Texas was reputed to have been one of the very best-constructed Confederate ironclads, second only to CSS Mississippi. Designed by John...
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  • CSS Mississippi was a projected ironclad warship of the Confederate States Navy, intended to be used on the Mississippi River in the vicinity of New Orleans...
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    named CSS Mississippi upon delivery to the Confederacy. Her sister was built under the false name El Tousson and was to have been renamed CSS North Carolina...
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    Lieutenant Warley, CSS Manassas joined the force of Captain John K. Mitchell, CSN, commanding Confederate naval forces in the lower Mississippi. She participated...
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  • Corps of Engineers towboats CSS Mississippi refers to a projected ironclad of the Confederate States Navy CSS Mississippi was a projected Confederate...
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  • Thumbnail for CSS Virginia
    CSS Virginia was the first steam-powered ironclad warship built by the Confederate States Navy during the first year of the American Civil War; she was...
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  • early 20th century CSS Mississippi, a projected ironclad of the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War MV Mississippi, a diesel towboat...
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  • Thumbnail for CSS Jamestown
    CSS Jamestown, originally a side-wheel, passenger steamer, was built at New York City in 1853, and seized at Richmond, Virginia in 1861 for the Virginia...
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    as Danmark CSS Scorpion/HMS Scorpion 1863 CSS Mississippi/HMS Wivern 1865 CSS Stonewall/Kōtetsu 1865 CSS Cheops/SMS Prinz Adalbert 1865 CSS Georgia/BAP...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Planter (1862)
    Carlton 24 Apr: CSS General Lovell, CSS Governor Moore, CSS Manassas, CSS Stonewall Jackson, Sweepstakes, USS Varuna 25 Apr: CSS Mississippi, CSRC Pickens...
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  • CSS Grampus was a stern-wheel river steamer built in 1856 at McKeesport, Pennsylvania, for civilian employment. Taken by the Confederate Army in early...
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    and Mississippi. On December 7, 1861, the gunboat CSS Pamlico sighted Union vessels entering Mississippi Sound. Oregon was present at Mississippi City...
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  • Thumbnail for CSS Arkansas
    CSS Arkansas was the lead ship of her class of two casemate ironclads built for the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Completed in...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Scorpion (1863)
    named CSS North Carolina upon delivery to the Confederacy. Her sister was built under the false name El Monassir and was to have been renamed CSS Mississippi...
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    sank the Confederate flagship CSS Colonel Lovell. In actions south of Vicksburg, Mississippi, she severely damaged the CSS City of Vicksburg and captured...
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  • CSS Louisiana was a casemate ironclad of the Confederate States Navy built to aid in defending the lower Mississippi River from invasion by the Union Navy...
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  • Thumbnail for CSS Ellis
    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 Sea Bird
    CSS Sea Bird was a sidewheel steamer in the Confederate States Navy. Sea Bird was built at Keyport, New Jersey in 1854, was purchased by North Carolina...
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  • Thumbnail for CSS McRae
    CSS McRae was a Confederate gunboat that saw service during the American Civil War. Displacing around 680 tons, she was armed with one 9-inch (229 mm)...
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  • Thumbnail for CSS General Earl Van Dorn
    CSS General Earl Van Dorn was a cottonclad warship used by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. She was purchased for Confederate...
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    Navy. Sent to New Orleans, he was assigned to the incomplete ironclad CSS Mississippi until her destruction in late April. The next month, while serving...
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    by the Virginia Navy. She was commissioned into the Confederate navy as CSS United States, but was later scuttled by Confederate forces. The U.S. Navy...
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    warship until the American Civil War, when she was sunk by the ironclad CSS Virginia in the Battle of Hampton Roads, Virginia, in 1862. Congress was...
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  • CSS Jackson was a gunboat of the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. Built at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1849 as Yankee, the fast side-wheel river...
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    USS Cairo (category Mississippi in the American Civil War)
    June 1862, she captured the Confederate garrison of Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, enabling Union forces to occupy Memphis. As part of the Yazoo...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Vermont (1848)
    Carlton 24 Apr: CSS General Lovell, CSS Governor Moore, CSS Manassas, CSS Stonewall Jackson, Sweepstakes, USS Varuna 25 Apr: CSS Mississippi, CSRC Pickens...
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  • Thumbnail for SS Great Eastern
    Carlton 24 Apr: CSS General Lovell, CSS Governor Moore, CSS Manassas, CSS Stonewall Jackson, Sweepstakes, USS Varuna 25 Apr: CSS Mississippi, CSRC Pickens...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip
    Navy: three ironclads, CSS Manassas, Louisiana, and Mississippi; two more traditional warships, converted from merchantmen, CSS McRae and Jackson, and...
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  • Thumbnail for CSS George Page
    CSS George Page, a 410-ton sidewheel steamship, was originally built as a transport at Washington, D.C. in 1853. She was attached to the Quartermaster's...
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  • Thumbnail for CSS General Beauregard
    CSS General Beauregard was a cottonclad sidewheel ram of the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Built in Algiers, New Orleans Louisiana...
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