CSS Sumter, converted from the 1859-built merchant steamer Habana, was the first steam cruiser of the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil...

Forest Sumter County, Alabama Sumter County, Florida Sumter County, Georgia Sumter County, South Carolina Sumter Township, McLeod County, Minnesota CSS Sumter...

American Civil War. Sumter originally was the Confederate cottonclad ram CSS General Sumter. She was placed into Confederate service and then United States Navy...

USS Sumter may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: USS Sumter (1862), the former CSS General Sumter, a cottonclad ram captured in...

Borneo. Three diplomatic incidents happened during the war. In 1861, the CSS Sumter was allowed in the bays of Willemstad, Curaçao and Paramaribo, Suriname...

ensign flown aboard his previous command, the smaller commerce raider CSS Sumter. Between 21 May and 28 November 1861, six more Southern states seceded...

turned over at war's end CSS Shenandoah, screw steamer, full rigged, iron-framed, turned over to British Government CSS Sumter, screw steamer, sloop, sold:...

Fort Sumter is a historical sea fort located near Charleston, South Carolina. Constructed on an artificial island at the entrance of Charleston Harbor...

Monthly pay for petty officers, men and boys American Civil War portal CSS Sumter - the first Confederate ship to put to sea Confederate States Marine Corps...

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...

Confederate flagship CSS Colonel Lovell. After the collision, the Queen of the West came under attack from the CSS Sumter and the CSS Beauregard. The attack...

Semmes, commander of the CSS Sumter wrote of the June 30 escape of his vessel from New Orleans: The evening of the escape of the Sumter was one of those Gulf...

prisoner. The Union forces captured and repaired CSS General Price, CSS General Bragg, CSS Sumter, and CSS Little Rebel, and added them to the Mississippi...

William Codrington. In January 1862, the Confederate commerce raider CSS Sumter, pursued by the Union Navy, arrived in port. The ship's commander, Raphael...

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...

Gulf Squadron commanding USS Richmond. He participated in the search for CSS Sumter in the West Indies while on his way to join the Gulf Blockading Squadron...

schooner Abby Bradford on 15 August. From late August to October she pursued CSS Sumter throughout much of the West Indies. Powhatan operated off Charleston,...

Class locomotive SS Gibraltar, the former Confederate States Navy ship CSS Sumter Gibraltar, a playable character in the game Apex Legends Gibraltar (Wilmington...

States sloop-of-war was commanded by Captain Raphael Semmes, formerly of CSS Sumter. It was Captain Semmes' intention to drydock his ship and receive repairs...

known as Junius Beebe; others state that Junius Beebe instead became CSS General Sumter. General Earl Van Dorn was a sidewheel steamer. She measured 182 feet...

Confederate flagship CSS Colonel Lovell. After the collision, the Queen of the West came under attack from the CSS Sumter and the CSS Beauregard. The attack...

1862 strong US diplomatic and naval presence in Cádiz forced the damaged CSS Sumter to leave port within 48 hours and take refuge in Gibraltar, where it was...

to seek and destroy Southern commerce raiders. At Martinique she found CSS Sumter anchored in the harbor. But the Confederate ship, under command of Raphael...

action apart from the blockade of the blockade runner and commerce raider CSS Sumter that was laid up in Gibraltar in need of repairs and refueling. She also...

Confederate raider CSS Sumter had captured three U.S. merchant ships near Cienfuegos in July. Wilkes headed there, despite the unlikelihood that Sumter would have...

Craven went to the Mediterranean, where he succeeded in watching the CSS Sumter so closely that her officers and crew finally abandoned the ship at Gibraltar...

the steamer Habana into the cruiser/commerce raider CSS Sumter. In June 1861, Semmes, in Sumter, outran USS Brooklyn, breaching the Union blockade of...

command of USS San Jacinto to search for the Confederate commerce destroyer CSS Sumter. As part of these duties, he visited the British colony of Bermuda in...

before she abandoned the effort. On June 30, 1861, the Confederate warship CSS Sumter raced out of Pass a l'Outre while Brooklyn had left her station in pursuit...

the blockade of Confederate raider CSS Sumter, forcing the ship's abandonment there in December 1862. However, Sumter's captain, Raphael Semmes, having returned...