...were lying in Southern waters when the war broke out, were taken or purchased by the Confederate Government. The most important were the Jamestown and the Yorktown (afterward the Patrick Henry) at Richmond ; the Selden at Norfolk; the Beaufort, Raleigh, Winslow, and Ellis, screw-tugs plying on the Chesapeake and Albemarle Canal; the side-wheel passenger boats Seabird and Curlew, in the North Carolina So...