The Confederate privateers were privately owned ships that were authorized by the government of the Confederate States of America to attack the shipping...

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...

ironclads Blockade runners of the American Civil War Commerce raiding Confederate privateer Cotton-clad Letters of marque Ransom Bond Bibliography of American...

likewise attempted to prosecute Confederate privateers for the criminal act of piracy. When the Confederate privateer Savannah was captured in 1861, its...

the first months it disrupted Confederate privateers, making it "almost impossible to bring their prizes into Confederate ports". British firms developed...

such prizes made by privateer crews. The manner in which Confederate privateers operated was generally similar to those of privateers of the United States...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(1927–2006), U.S. Senator from Maryland John Yates Beall (1835–1865), Confederate privateer and spy Johnny Beall (1882–1926), American baseball player Lester...

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...

War, Confederate privateers cruised against Union merchant shipping. Likewise, the Union (though refusing to recognize the legitimacy of Confederate letters...

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...

Lawrence encountered a Confederate privateer named Petrel. The engagement ended in a Union victory and the surviving Confederates were arrested for piracy...

there was a plot by Confederate sympathizers in Victoria to purchase ships in British Columbia and outfit them as Confederate privateers. However, this plot...

Union intelligence as a "hellish machine.": 68–9  Commissioned as a Confederate privateer on 12 September 1861, Manassas was seized soon afterwards by Flag...

was particularly in use during the American Civil War when Confederate States Navy privateers would seize Union merchant vessels and hold them for ransom...

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...

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...

Throughout the American Civil War, Confederate privateers successfully harassed Union merchant ships. Privateering lost international sanction under the...

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...

Captain Worden took his ship into the Ogeechee River, found the Confederate privateer Rattlesnake (formerly CSS Nashville), and destroyed her with five...

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...

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...

blockade of Callao under the command of Commander Bynnon and the Confederate privateer fleet under Jean Blanchet. The army of General Manuel Bulnes could...

Private ship| 6 July 1861 |  Confederate States Navy | 20 July 1861 A civilian schooner, captured by the Confederate privateer Jefferson Davis, later recaptured...

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...

he led a boat expedition into Pensacola Harbor to destroy the Confederate privateer Judah. He next assumed command of the gunboat Kennebec and participated...

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...