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The Confederate States privateer Savannah. First to leave Charleston Harbor, on 2 June 1861, was the privateer Savannah.Her second day at sea, she captured brig Joseph, and thereby became the first Charleston privateer to take a prize in the war.
CSS Savannah was a Richmond-class casemate ironclad in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Savannah was built by H. F. Willink for the Confederacy at Savannah, Georgia, in 1863. On June 30, 1863 she was transferred to naval forces in the Savannah River under the command of Flag Officer William W. Hunter.
Sallie, privateer schooner; Savannah, privateer schooner, captured: June 3, 1861; Sealine, privateer brig; Theodora, privateer side-wheel steamer, renamed Gordon, captured the USA Brigandine William McGilvery on July 25, 1861, the USA Schooner Protector on July 28, 1861; Triton, 30-ton privateer schooner with 1 × 6-pdr [52] V.H. Ivy, privateer ...
When the Confederate privateer Savannah was captured in 1861, its crew was put on trial in New York. The Confederate government, however, threatened to execute captured Union soldiers in retaliation if any of the Confederate sailors were convicted and hanged, and the Union eventually agreed to treat Confederate privateers as prisoners of war ...
In the brig USS Perry he captured the Confederate privateer Savannah, for which he received the commendation of the Navy Department. He commanded the steamer USS Augusta from 1861 to 1863, participating in the battle of Port Royal , and engaged the Confederate rams Palmetto State and Chicora at the time of their sortie from Charleston on ...
In May 1861, with the coming of the U.S. Civil War, Maffitt resigned his U.S. Navy commission and became a First Lieutenant in the Confederate States Navy. He served as a naval aide to General Robert E. Lee while preparations for the defense of Savannah were in progress.
The education board for a rural Virginia county voted early on Friday to restore the names of Confederate generals stripped from two schools in 2020, making the mostly white, Republican district ...
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1862 Ship State Description A. B. Thompson United States American Civil War: Captured by the Confederate privateer Lady Davis ( Confederate States of America) in 1861, the 980-ton full-rigged ship was scuttled as a blockship in the Savannah River in Georgia by Confederate forces in late 1861 or early 1862.