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Browsing named entities in a specific section of James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller). Search the whole document.

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Hunter Davidson (search for this): chapter 4
his little converted tug-boat was not afraid in the famous battle in Hampton Roads. Later, no longer under the protecting wing of her huge ironclad leader, she met the Monitor and the Maratanza near Haxall's, on the James River, July 4, 1862. The little vessel had run aground and was forced to engage her superior antagonists. She opened fire and put a shot into the wheel-house of the Maratanza, whose answering fire at the third shot exploded a shell in the boiler of the Teaser. Lieutenant Hunter Davidson and her crew escaped to shore. In the captured vessel were found despatches from which the Federals gleaned valuable information. Deck of C. S. S. Teaser after her capture by the Maratanza The Maratanza : after her exploit One of the first Southern naval men to resign from the Federal Naval Department was Commander Raphael Semmes, who at once went South to enter the service of the new Government. He was sent to the North to secure what arms and ammunition he could, to
John Ericsson (search for this): chapter 4
ke, late lieutenant, United States navy, immediately started the reconstruction of the wreck on plans that were new to naval warfare. On the 8th of March, in the following year, the armored Merrimac, rechristened the Virginia, raised the hopes of the Confederacy, and closed the day of the wooden battle-ship by the sinking of the Cumberland and the destruction of the Congress in Hampton Roads, Virginia. The hopes she had roused, however, were shattered on the day following by the advent of Ericsson's Monitor. A number of other Federal ships were seized after the opening of hostilities, among which were the revenue cutters Aiken, Cass, Washington, Pickens, Dodge, McClelland, and Bradford. All of these boats were fitted out for privateering as quickly as possible, and went to sea with varying fortunes. The Aiken was rechristened the Petrel, and her career was soon ended by the United States frigate St. Lawrence, from which she was attempting to escape. The treasury of the Confed
Josiah Tattnall (search for this): chapter 4
pril 18, 1864, she started down the river, with the forges and workmen still aboard of her, completing her armor. Next day she sank the Southfield. In the picture she is in Federal hands, having been raised after Cushing's famous exploit had put her hors du combat. The Lady Davis, formerly a tug, was purchased in Baltimore and was the first war-vessel to be put afloat by the State of South Carolina, March 13, 1861. She made several captures of Federal vessels around Charleston and was in Tattnall's little fleet on the sounds. In the picture she is in sharp and significant contrast with the huge sailing frigate whose wooden sides and many guns already belong to a past era. The efforts that brought such vessels as the Albemarle and the Lady Davis into the war marked the beginning of a new American navy. In these pictures both of these formidable vessels have been stripped. morally certain that the ships were to serve in the Confederate navy, there was no tangible evidence upon whi
Charles Ellet (search for this): chapter 4
ed the Cincinnati before the rest of the Federal fleet could come to her assistance. In the attack the General Bragg received a full broadside from the Cincinnati, which disabled her and put her out of the action, but not until she had rammed the Federal gunboat, tearing a great hole in her side and flooding her shell-room. She was towed to the shore and sank in eleven feet of water. The career of this Confederate river-defense flotilla was brief, however, for on the 6th of June, when Charles Ellet's rams had been added to the fleet of the Federals in the engagement off Memphis, the Confederate fleet was put out of commission. This picture of the General Bragg was taken after she had been raised and refitted by the Federals and added to Porter's fleet on the Mississippi, where she served creditably till the war's close. sailing craft of various dimensions, classes, and armaments had been equipped, while many others were in the process of construction. Of those in commission, tw
W. B. Cushing (search for this): chapter 4
made by the Confederacy to put a navy into actual existence. The Albemarle was built at the suggestion of two men whose experience had been limited to the construction of flat-boats. Under the supervision of Commander James W. Cooke, C. S. N., the vessel was completed; and on April 18, 1864, she started down the river, with the forges and workmen still aboard of her, completing her armor. Next day she sank the Southfield. In the picture she is in Federal hands, having been raised after Cushing's famous exploit had put her hors du combat. The Lady Davis, formerly a tug, was purchased in Baltimore and was the first war-vessel to be put afloat by the State of South Carolina, March 13, 1861. She made several captures of Federal vessels around Charleston and was in Tattnall's little fleet on the sounds. In the picture she is in sharp and significant contrast with the huge sailing frigate whose wooden sides and many guns already belong to a past era. The efforts that brought such ves
Price (search for this): chapter 4
amation that all the privateers would be regarded as pirates, and that their crews and officers would be subjected to punishment as such. Six months after the issuing of this order the crew of the captured privateer Savannah was tried The General Price --a Confederate war-boat that changed hands This was one of the fourteen river-steamers condemned and seized for the Confederate Government by General Lovell at New Orleans, January 15, 1862. Converted into a war-boat, she took a bold part rams off Memphis, she met the same fate as the General Bragg and the other vessels. She and the General Beauregard, while making a dash from opposite sides upon the Monarch, both missed that speedy vessel and collided with each other. The General Price was so badly injured that her captain ran her upon the Arkansas shore, to be added to the prizes won by the Ellet rams. The action put an end to the river-defense flotilla of the Confederates. Like the Federal river fleet at first, this org
Aiken (search for this): chapter 4
of the Cumberland and the destruction of the Congress in Hampton Roads, Virginia. The hopes she had roused, however, were shattered on the day following by the advent of Ericsson's Monitor. A number of other Federal ships were seized after the opening of hostilities, among which were the revenue cutters Aiken, Cass, Washington, Pickens, Dodge, McClelland, and Bradford. All of these boats were fitted out for privateering as quickly as possible, and went to sea with varying fortunes. The Aiken was rechristened the Petrel, and her career was soon ended by the United States frigate St. Lawrence, from which she was attempting to escape. The treasury of the Confederacy was soon supplied with enough currency to start operations, and with the share allotted to it the Navy Department commenced to make its small fleet as formidable as possible. All the shipyards that had been taken possession of or could be secured from private parties were equipped to handle the work of construction
Merrimac (search for this): chapter 4
first able to exemplify their ideas in ironclad construction by raising the hull of the sunken Merrimac and converting her into the armored Virginia, to strike terror at the heart of the North by herde in Savannah. In January 1862, the Confederates began converting her into an ironclad of the Merrimac type. She was cut down to the main deck and widened amidships. A casemate was built upon her ser, one of the first Confederate gunboats Before the completion of the ironclad Virginia, ( Merrimac, )the Confederate navy had but five small steamers in the James River to oppose eight of the lan one grade for the same service. . . . The Maratanza As a consort of the Virginia ( Merrimac ), this little converted tug-boat was not afraid in the famous battle in Hampton Roads. Later, plans that were new to naval warfare. On the 8th of March, in the following year, the armored Merrimac, rechristened the Virginia, raised the hopes of the Confederacy, and closed the day of the wood
David Dixon Porter (search for this): chapter 4
a After capturing the great ironclad, the Confederates towed their prize over to the east bank of the Mississippi, where she sank, near Jefferson Davis' plantation. Two days later, as they were trying to raise her, they were frightened off by Porter's famous dummy monitor, made of pork-barrels and an old coal-barge, and the next day, although the harmless monitor was hard and fast aground, they destroyed the Indianola and abandoned her. The Indianola had two propellers in addition to her sidet's rams had been added to the fleet of the Federals in the engagement off Memphis, the Confederate fleet was put out of commission. This picture of the General Bragg was taken after she had been raised and refitted by the Federals and added to Porter's fleet on the Mississippi, where she served creditably till the war's close. sailing craft of various dimensions, classes, and armaments had been equipped, while many others were in the process of construction. Of those in commission, twenty-
Haxall (search for this): chapter 4
xposed position is evidence of the courage that was necessary to man it. In the lower picture is seen the 32-pounder that was added to the Teaser's armament later. With only these two guns she encountered both the Maratanza and the Monitor, near Haxall's, on the James River, July 4, 1862, and replied valiantly to their fire. The third of the Federal shots, however, pierced her boiler, and her crew were forced to desert her. Many of the vessels procured by the Confederates to piece out its navy As a consort of the Virginia ( Merrimac ), this little converted tug-boat was not afraid in the famous battle in Hampton Roads. Later, no longer under the protecting wing of her huge ironclad leader, she met the Monitor and the Maratanza near Haxall's, on the James River, July 4, 1862. The little vessel had run aground and was forced to engage her superior antagonists. She opened fire and put a shot into the wheel-house of the Maratanza, whose answering fire at the third shot exploded a sh
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