• The Confederate privateers were privately owned ships that were authorized by the government of the Confederate States of America to attack the shipping...
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    ironclads Blockade runners of the American Civil War Commerce raiding Confederate privateer Cotton-clad Letters of marque Ransom Bond Bibliography of American...
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    A privateer is a private person or vessel which engages in commerce raiding under a commission of war. Since robbery under arms was a common aspect of...
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    Letter of marque (category Privateering)
    likewise attempted to prosecute Confederate privateers for the criminal act of piracy. When the Confederate privateer Savannah was captured in 1861, its...
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    the first months it disrupted Confederate privateers, making it "almost impossible to bring their prizes into Confederate ports". British firms developed...
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    1819 – May 15, 1886) was an officer in the Confederate States Navy who was nicknamed the "Prince of Privateers" due to his success as a blockade runner...
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    steamer CSS Curlew The 11-star ensign of the Confederate Privateer Jefferson Davis A 12-star first Confederate Navy ensign of the gunboat CSS Ellis, 1861–1862...
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    such prizes made by privateer crews. The manner in which Confederate privateers operated was generally similar to those of privateers of the United States...
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  • John Beall may refer to: John Yates Beall (1835–1865), Confederate privateer in the American Civil War, arrested and executed as a spy J. Glenn Beall...
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    John Yates Beall (category American privateers)
    John Yates Beall (January 1, 1835 – February 24, 1865) was a Confederate privateer in the American Civil War who was arrested as a spy in New York and...
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  • (1927–2006), U.S. Senator from Maryland John Yates Beall (1835–1865), Confederate privateer and spy Johnny Beall (1882–1926), American baseball player Lester...
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    Circle in San Francisco outfitted the schooner J. M. Chapman as a Confederate privateer in San Francisco Bay, with the object of raiding commerce on the...
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    of San Francisco, just as she was preparing to put to sea as a Confederate privateer. This seizure made Union men everywhere along the coast more alert...
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    War, Confederate privateers cruised against Union merchant shipping. Likewise, the Union (though refusing to recognize the legitimacy of Confederate letters...
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    there was a plot by Confederate sympathizers in Victoria to purchase ships in British Columbia and outfit them as Confederate privateers. However, this plot...
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    Lawrence encountered a Confederate privateer named Petrel. The engagement ended in a Union victory and the surviving Confederates were arrested for piracy...
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    CSS Manassas (category Ironclad warships of the Confederate States Navy)
    Union intelligence as a "hellish machine.": 68–9  Commissioned as a Confederate privateer on 12 September 1861, Manassas was seized soon afterwards by Flag...
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    The USS Beauregard began the war as a Confederate privateer. The Union Navy acquired the schooner from the prize court and outfitted the vessel for blockade...
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  • Ransom bond (category Privateering)
    was particularly in use during the American Civil War when Confederate States Navy privateers would seize Union merchant vessels and hold them for ransom...
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    Thomas Bell Poole (category Confederate States Army officers)
    the Knights of the Golden Circle and served as a crewman of the Confederate privateer J. M. Chapman during the American Civil War. Poole was born in 1820...
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    H. L. Hunley (category Submarines of the Confederate States Navy)
    deserted the ship. In June 1861, he entered Jefferson Davis (the Confederate privateer brig originally named Putnam) as a mate. The Hunley is on display...
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    Captain Worden took his ship into the Ogeechee River, found the Confederate privateer Rattlesnake (formerly CSS Nashville), and destroyed her with five...
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    Piracy (redirect from French privateers)
    Throughout the American Civil War, Confederate privateers successfully harassed Union merchant ships. Privateering lost international sanction under the...
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    Private ship| 6 July 1861 |  Confederate States Navy | 20 July 1861 A civilian schooner, captured by the Confederate privateer Jefferson Davis, later recaptured...
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  • blockade of Callao under the command of Commander Bynnon and the Confederate privateer fleet under Jean Blanchet. The army of General Manuel Bulnes could...
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  • killed on 8 June 1862, while on a boat expedition to destroy a Confederate privateer in the St. Johns River in Florida. Both John Sproston and his father...
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    the Cyane prevented the sloop J. M. Chapman from being used as a Confederate privateer when her armed boarding party took control of the ship as it was...
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  • the outbreak of the Civil War, the Confederate States granted some 30 commissions or letters of marque to privateers, which captured between 50 and 60...
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    ISBN 978-0-8071-0684-6. Retrieved October 1, 2020. Robinson, Confederate privateers, p. 1; Luraghi, History of the Confederate Navy, p. 71. National Park Service battle...
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    he led a boat expedition into Pensacola Harbor to destroy the Confederate privateer Judah. He next assumed command of the gunboat Kennebec and participated...
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