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    The Confederate States Navy (CSN) was the naval branch of the Confederate States Armed Forces, established by an act of the Confederate States Congress...
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  • ranks and insignia of the Confederate States were a rank insignia system devised for the Military of the Confederate States of America during the American...
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    The flags of the Confederate States of America have a history of three successive designs during the American Civil War. The flags were known as the "Stars...
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    The Confederate States secretary of the navy was the head of the Confederate States Department of the Navy. Stephen R. Mallory held this position through...
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  • Each branch of the Confederate States armed forces had its own service dress and fatigue uniforms and regulations regarding them during the American Civil...
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    This is a list of ships of the Confederate States Navy (CSN), used by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War between 1861 and...
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    The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly...
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    Department of the Navy was the Confederate Civil Service department responsible for the administration of the affairs of the Confederate States Navy and Marine...
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    (1861–1865). The military forces of the Confederate States had three services: Confederate States Army – The Confederate States Army (CSA) the land-based military...
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    The Confederate States Marine Corps (CSMC), also referred to as the Confederate States Marines, was a branch of the Confederate Navy during the American...
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    The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway...
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    The Union Navy was the United States Navy (USN) during the American Civil War, when it fought the Confederate States Navy (CSN). The term is sometimes...
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    government and commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army and Navy. Article II of the Constitution of the Confederate States vested executive power of the Confederacy...
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    gunboat briefly used in the American Civil War by both the Confederate States Navy and the Union Navy. Unlike a monitor-type ironclad which carried its armament...
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    The Confederate States Congress was both the provisional and permanent legislative assembly of the Confederate States of America that existed from 1861...
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    Navy. She was subsequently commissioned into the Confederate navy as CSS United States, but was later scuttled by Confederate forces. The U.S. Navy raised...
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    Duncan Ingraham (category Confederate States Navy captains)
    16 October 1891) was an officer in the United States Navy who later served in the Confederate States Navy. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Ingraham...
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    Franklin Buchanan (category Confederate States Navy admirals)
    May 11, 1874) was an officer in the United States Navy who became the only full admiral in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. He also commanded...
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    Kirby Smith Incomplete appointments State militia generals The Confederate and United States processes for appointment, nomination and confirmation of general...
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    In 1861, the American Civil War began and the U.S. Navy fought the small Confederate States Navy with both sailing ships and new revolutionary ironclad...
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    recapture. CSS Ellis |  Confederate States Navy | 10 February 1862; a gunboat in the Confederate States Navy and the United States Navy during, later lost...
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    John Taylor Wood (category Confederate States Navy captains)
    United States Navy and the Confederate Navy. He resigned from the U.S. Navy at the beginning of the American Civil War, and became a "leading Confederate naval...
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    August 13, 1873) was a former official of the United States and supporter of the Confederate States of America. Sanders was believed by some to have a level...
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    Defense that Commemorate the Confederate States of America or Any Person Who Served Voluntarily with the Confederate States of America, more commonly referred...
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    John L. Porter (category Confederate States Navy)
    4 December 1893) was a naval constructor for United States Navy and the Confederate States Navy. Porter was born in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1813. His...
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    Richard Lucian Page (category Confederate States Navy captains)
    was a United States Navy officer who joined the Confederate States Navy and later became a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the...
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  • USS Cornubia (category Ships captured by the United States Navy from the Confederate States Navy)
    officially decommissioned from the Union Navy and was sold on 25 October. Union Navy Confederate States Navy "A Trip in the New Steamer Cornubia". Western...
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  • commissioned officers of the Confederate States Navy. The CS Naval Academy was established by an act of the Confederate States Congress on April 21, 1862...
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    USS Planter (1862) (category Ships captured by the United States Navy from the Confederate States Navy)
    Civil War. The episode is missing from Scharf's History of the Confederate States Navy, except for one sentence saying that Smalls "stole" the ship. For...
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  • the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Only the lead ship of the class, Nashville, was commissioned into Confederate States Navy service;...
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