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HNLMS Adolf van Nassau (1861) Adriatic (ship, 1861) French corvette Alecton; USS Alert (1861) Russian frigate Alexander Nevsky; USS Antelope (1861) Antelope (shipwreck) USS Aroostook (1861) SS Arratoon Apcar; USS Atlanta (1861)
Antebellum city directories from slave states can be valuable primary sources on the trade; slave dealers listed in the 1855 directory of Memphis, Tennessee, included Bolton & Dickens, Forrest & Maples operating at 87 Adams, Neville & Cunningham, and Byrd Hill Slave depots, including ones owned by Mason Harwell and Thomas Powell, listed in the ...
The Colt Model 1861 Navy cap & ball.36-caliber revolver was a six-shot, single-action percussion weapon produced by Colt's Manufacturing Company from 1861 until 1873. It incorporated the "creeping" or ratchet loading lever and round barrel of the .44-caliber Army Model of 1860 but had a barrel one half inch shorter, at 7.5 inches.
In 1859 Savannah was the site of a slave sale colloquially known as the Weeping Time, one of the largest slave sales in the history of the United States. [19] Historian E.A. Pollard wrote in 1858, "Macon, you must know, is one of the principal marts for slaves in the South. Some time ago, I attended on the city's confines an extraordinarily ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Georgia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
The list of ship commissionings in 1861 includes a chronological list of ships commissioned in 1861. In cases where no official commissioning ceremony was held, the date of service entry may be used instead.
For private owner. [131] July United Kingdom: Thompson Southwick: Dorothea: Barque: For private owner. [113] July United Kingdom: Messrs. Watson & Son Sunderland: Glance: Cutter: For private owner. [1] [113] July United Kingdom: River Clyde: Glenfallon: Full-rigged ship: For private owner. [132] July United Kingdom: John Robinson Sunderland ...
War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861–1865. University of North Carolina Press. Pedisich, Paul E. Congress Buys a Navy: Politics, Economics, and the Rise of American Naval Power, 1881–1921 (Naval Institute, 2016). 286 pp. Potter, E.B. Sea Power: A Naval History (1981), battle history worldwide