CSS New Orleans was a floating battery used by the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Converted from a floating drydock in 1861, she...

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...

USS New Orleans (LPD-18), is a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock commissioned in 2007 and currently in active service CSS New Orleans was a...

CSS Manassas, formerly the steam icebreaker Enoch Train, was built in 1855 by James O. Curtis as a twin-screw towboat at Medford, Massachusetts. A New...

of jazz music New Orleans blues, a subgenre of blues music and a variation of Louisiana blues New Orleans (steamboat) CSS New Orleans, a floating gun...

on its way to capture New Orleans. In the engagement Stonewall Jackson rammed USS Varuna, which had already been struck by CSS Governor Moore. With Varuna's...

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...

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...

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...

Its Organization to the Surrender of Its Last Vessel (2nd ed.). Albany, New York: J. McDonough. p. 88. Howard Westwood, "Robert Smalls: Commander of...

island. Oregon and J. D. Swain returned to New Orleans on July 7, and the former returned with the steamer CSS Gray Cloud the next day to bring further...

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...

CSS General Beauregard was a cottonclad sidewheel ram of the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Built in Algiers, New Orleans Louisiana...

April 9, Hollins was informed that New Orleans was threatened, so he traveled downriver with Ivy and the gunboat CSS Jackson. In Hollins's absence, the...

Memphis) 4 Apr: CSS Red Rover 7 Apr: CSS Grampus 8 Apr: CSS New Orleans 14 Apr: Erebus 19 Apr: USS Maria J. Carlton 24 Apr: CSS General Lovell, CSS Governor...

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...

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...

there by her sister ship-of-the-line USS New Hampshire. Vermont remained at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York, for the next 37 years, serving both...

CSS Grampus was a stern-wheel river steamer built in 1856 at McKeesport, Pennsylvania, for civilian employment. Taken by the Confederate Army in early...

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...

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)...

CSS Colonel Lovell was a cotton-clad ram ship of the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War The ship was built in Cincinnati, Ohio, in...

Civil War. Mexico was pressed into Confederate service as CSS General Bragg at New Orleans, Louisiana 15 January 1862. She was converted to a "cottonclad"...

when she bested the British steamer SS Great Western in a speed contest off New York. In 1841, Captain John T. Newton was in command of Fulton. Experiments...

and built at New York in 1854 as a schooner-rigged, low pressure, walking beam-engined, seagoing steamer. She was seized at New Orleans, Louisiana by...

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...

her mere existence, together with that of CSS Louisiana, raised thwarted hopes in the defenders of New Orleans, and unfounded fears in Union circles, that...

in the New Orleans area. To strengthen the New Orleans fleet, two sister ships were constructed on Bayou St. John: Carondelet and the steamer CSS Bienville...

Charleston Harbor, used for makeshift defense. CSS Danube, floating battery CSS Memphis, floating battery CSS New Orleans, floating battery, scuttled: April 7,...

fitted out at New Orleans and was almost ready for sea. On 25 April 1862, Confederate forces scuttled Washington at the docks in New Orleans to prevent her...