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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.
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A chase began and continued for around four hours before the Confederates were overhauled. Some accounts say USS St. Lawrence was disguised as a merchantman during the engagement which successfully lured Petrel in for an attack, but at some point Captain Perry discovered the true nature of the Union frigate and he decided to flee as fast as he could.
The U.S. Navy purchased the Beauregard from the prize court for $1,810 on February 24, 1862 [2] and began fitting the schooner for service with the blockading squadrons. To replace the 24 pound rifled gun that the privateer's crew had spiked, [2] the navy armed the Beauregard with a single 30 pound rifle and two 12 pound howitzers. [3]
[1] [2] Maffitt was a slave owner, and sold Cornelia Williams Read in 1857. [3] During the American Civil War, while commanding the Confederate States Navy cruiser CSS Florida, he was chased by the United States Navy steam frigate USS Niagara to Europe. [4] On board Niagara was William B. Gould, who married Read after the war. [4]
John Yates Beall (January 1, 1835 – February 24, 1865) was a Confederate privateer in the American Civil War who was arrested as a spy in New York and executed at Fort Columbus on Governors Island. Early life and education
On April 11, 1862, George W. Randolph, the new Confederate Secretary of War appointed John Newland Maffitt, an officer of the Confederate Navy [56] and a notorious privateer with a long success record, to be the acting agent in Nassau for the Confederacy. Nassau was one of several offshore stopover points for shipments coming into or leaving ...
2 7" rifled cannons, 2 6.4" rifled cannons An inaccurate depiction of Savannah published in Harpers Weekly in 1863 CSS Savannah was a Richmond -class casemate ironclad in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War .