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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 ...
The Confederate States Navy (CSN) was the naval branch of the Confederate States Armed Forces, established by an act of the Confederate States Congress on February 21, 1861. [1] It was responsible for Confederate naval operations during the American Civil War against the United States's Union Navy .
The school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia, plans to vote Thursday on a proposal that would restore the names of Confederate military leaders to two public schools, according to a meeting ...
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.
A U.S. school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia, will vote on Thursday on whether to restore previously removed Confederate names to two schools, potentially becoming the first community in the ...