List of ships of the Confederate States Navy facts for kids

Seal of the Department of the Navy

This is a list of ships of the Confederate States Navy (CSN), used by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War between 1861 and 1865. Included are some types of civilian vessels, such as blockade runners, steamboats, and privateers which contributed to the war efforts by the CSN. Also included are special types of floating batteries and harbor defense craft.

CSN Warships

The Secretary of the CS Navy, Stephen Mallory, was very aggressive on a limited budget in a land-focused war, and developed a two-pronged warship strategy of building ironclad warships for coastal and national defense, and commerce raiding cruisers, supplemented with exploratory use of special weapons such as torpedo boats and torpedoes.

Batteries

Based upon the successful employment of ironclad warships, particularly batteries, at the Battle of Kinburn, Britain and France decided to focus on armor plated warships, starting with coastal battery designs. Initial ocean going ironclad cruisers, such as the French Gloire and the British HMS Warrior were only just emerging in 1859 and 1860, and were beyond the budget and timeline necessary for rapid force deployment that the CS Navy needed for immediate coastal defenses in 1861.

Therefore, the Confederate Congress voted $2 million in May 1861 to buy ironclads from overseas, and in July and August started work on construction and converting wooden ships locally. On 12 October 1861, the Manassas became the first ironclad to enter battle when she fought Union warships on the Mississippi. In February 1862, the even larger Virginia joined the Confederate Navy, having been built at Norfolk. The Confederacy built a number of ships designed as versions of the Virginia, of which several saw action. In the failed attack on Charleston on April 7, 1863 two small ironclads, Palmetto State and Chicora participated in the successful defense of the harbor. For the later attack at Mobile Bay, the Union faced the Tennessee, the Confederacy's most powerful ironclad.

Ironclad steam powered batteries

Ex-CSS USS Atlanta on the James River, photo by Mathew Brady

CSS Chicora

CSS Muscogee also known as CSS Jackson

Ex-CSS USS Tennessee

Ex-USS Merrimac/CSS Virginia

CSS Albemarle

The CS Navy ironclad steamer batteries were all designed for national coastal defense.

CSS Albemarle, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, sunk: October 28, 1864
CSS Arkansas, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: August 5, 1862
CSS Atlanta, triple-screw steamer, ironclad ram, captured: June 17, 1863
CSS Baltic, side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad and ironclad ram, surrendered: May 10, 1865
CSS Charleston, ironclad steam sloop, destroyed: February 18, 1865
CSS Chicora, steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: February 18, 1865
CSS Columbia, single screw steamer, ironclad ram, captured: April 26, 1865
CSS Eastport, side-wheel steamer, ironclad gunboat, captured incomplete: February 8, 1862
CSS Fredericksburg, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: April 4, 1865
CSS Huntsville, ironclad steam floating battery, scuttled: April 12, 1865
CSS Louisiana, twin screw and double center-wheel steamer, ironclad, destroyed: April 28, 1862
CSS Manassas, screw steamer, ironclad ram, sunk: April 24, 1862
CSS Milledgeville, steamer, ironclad, burned incomplete: December 21, 1864
CSS Mississippi, triple-screw steamer, ironclad, burned: April 25, 1862
CSS Missouri, center-wheel steam sloop, ironclad ram, surrendered: June 3, 1865
CSS Mobile, screw steamer, ironclad, burned before launching: May 21, 1863
CSS Muscogee, twin-screw with center-wheel steamer, ironclad, burned: April 17, 1865
CSS Nashville, side-wheel steamer, ironclad ram, surrendered: May 10, 1865
CSS Neuse, twin-screw steam sloop, ironclad ram, destroyed: March 14, 1865
CSS North Carolina, steam sloop, ironclad, accidentally sank: September 27, 1864
CSS Palmetto State, sloop, ironclad ram, destroyed: 18 February 1865
CSS Raleigh, steam sloop, ironclad, wrecked: May 7, 1864
CSS Richmond, screw steamer, ironclad ram, scuttled: April 3, 1865
CSS Savannah, steam sloop, ironclad, burned: December 21, 1864
CSS Tennessee, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed before launching: June 5, 1862
CSS Tennessee, single screw steamer, ironclad ram, captured: August 5, 1864
CSS Texas, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, never completed, captured: April 4, 1865
CSS Tuscaloosa, ironclad steam floating battery, scuttled: April 12, 1865
CSS Virginia, screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: May 11, 1862
CSS Virginia II, steam sloop, ironclad, destroyed: April 4, 1865
CSS Wilmington, twin-screw steamer, ironclad gunboat, destroyed before completion: January 1865

Ironclad floating batteries

CS Navy ironclad floating batteries lacked steam engines for propulsion and were towed into firing positions.

CSS Arctic, ironclad floating battery, scuttled: 24 December 1864
CSS Georgia, ironclad floating battery, scuttled: December 21, 1864
CSS Phoenix, ironclad floating battery, destroyed: 1865

Wooden floating batteries

The Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor

CS Navy wooden floating batteries were towed into firing positions, and as in the case at Charleston Harbor, used for makeshift defense.

CSS Danube, floating battery
CSS Memphis, floating battery
CSS New Orleans, floating battery, scuttled: April 7, 1862
Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor

Cruisers

CS Navy cruisers were ocean-going ships designed primarily for the Confederate Navy's strategy of guerre de course. Confederate States Navy cruisers were typically lightly armed, with a couple of large guns or a pivot gun, and often very fast. The Navy planned to add ironclad cruisers to their fleet, successfully procuring one, but too late to be of benefit for the war.

Wooden cruisers

CSS Alabama, screw steamer, sloop-of-war, built in Birkenhead, England by John Laird Sons and Company, sunk: June 19, 1864
CSS Alexandra, screw steamer, bark-rigged, built in Liverpool, England, seized before delivery: April 5, 1863
CSS America, racing yacht, scuttled: 1862
CSS Archer, schooner, captured: June 28, 1863
CSS Caleb Cushing, revenue cutter, burned: June 28, 1863
CSS Chickamauga, screw steamer, burned
CSS Clarence, brig, burned: June 12, 1863
CSS Florida, screw steamer, sloop, captured: October 7, 1864
CSS Georgia, screw steamer, iron, sold: June 1, 1864
CSS Georgiana, steamer, destroyed: After leaving port on March 20, 1863 the steamer is destroyed on March 22, 1863
CSS Lapwing, bark, burned: June 20, 1863
CSS Nashville, side-wheel steamer, brig rigged, sold and used as privateer Rattlesnake and sunk, February 28, 1862
CSS Rappahannock, screw steamer, sloop-of-war, turned over at war's end
CSS Shenandoah, screw steamer, full rigged, iron-framed, turned over to British Government
CSS Sumter, screw steamer, sloop, sold: December 19, 1862
CSS Tacony, bark, burned: June 25, 1863
CSS Tallahassee, twin-screw steamer, sloop, seized: April 9, 1865 by British Government
CSS Tuscaloosa, bark, seized: December 29, 1863
CSS United States, frigate, sail, harbor defense use only, scuttled

Ironclad cruisers

But the CS Navy attempts to procure ironclad cruisers from overseas were frustrated as European nations confiscated ships being built for the Confederacy. Only the Stonewall was completed and successfully delivered, and she arrived in American waters just in time for the end of the war.

CSS North Carolina I, seized October 1863 and commissioned as HMS Scorpion
CSS Mississippi II, seized October 1863 and commissioned as HMS Wivern
CSS Stonewall, twin-screw steamer, brig rigged, ironclad, surrendered in Cuba at end of war, returned to US, sold to Japan and renamed Kōtetsu
CSS Cheops, sister to Stonewall, built in France and sold to Prussia, October 29, 1865, and named SMS Prinz Adalbert
CSS Georgia screw corvette 2017 tons [1,150 tons BOM]. Sold to Peru after the French government stopped its sale to the Confederacy. Taken into service as BAP Unión 1864. Scuttled January 1881 to avoid capture.
CSS Texas, screw corvette and sister ship of BAP Union. Sold to Peru after the French government stopped its sale to the Confederacy. Taken into service as BAP America. Lost during the Arica tsunami on 13 August 1868.
Ironclad Frigate No. 61, arranged by Captain James H. North, CSN, sold to Denmark, commissioned as Danmark

CSS Stonewall 1865
HMS Scorpion 1863
HMS Wivern 1865
The BAP corvette America wrecked by the 1868 tsunami at Arica
BAP Unión 1880
The scuttled BAP Unión 1881
KMD Danmark 1864
SMS Prinz Adalbert 1865

Gunboats

Top picture CSS Lady Davis May 18, 1861

CSS Teaser at the right

CSS Governor Moore

CSS A. B. Seger, dispatch boat, run aground 1 November 1862; seized and placed in service by the Union
CSS Anglo-Norman, side-wheel steamer, burned or captured April 1862
CSS Appomattox, tugboat, burned February 10, 1862
CSS Bartow, schooner
CS Bayou City, surrendered to U.S. Navy 1865; sold 1866
CSS Beaufort, screw steamer, captured by U.S. Navy April 3, 1865
CSS Bienville, side-wheel steamer, destroyed incomplete April 1862
CSS Black Warrior, schooner, burned February 10, 1862
CSS Bombshell, steamer, captured: May 5, 1864
CSS Calhoun, sidewheel gunboat, captured: January 23, 1862
CSS Carondelet, sidewheel steamer, destroyed April 1862
CSS Chattahoochee, twin-screw steamer, scuttled: December, 1864
CSS Clifton, side-wheel gunboat, Texas Marine Department, scuttled March 1864
CSS Curlew, side-wheel river steamer, sunk: February 7, 1862
CSS De Soto, side-wheel steamer, captured: September 30, 1862
CSS Defiance, river steamer, destroyed: April 28, 1862
CSS Diana, steamer, which twice changed hands, managed to survive the Civil War and was presumably decommissioned
CSS Drewry, steamer, tender, destroyed: January 24, 1865
CSS Ellis, steamer, tugboat, captured: February 10, 1862
CSS Equator, steamer, burned: 1865
CSS Fanny, screw steamer, iron hull, burned: February 10, 1862
CSS Fashion, schooner
CSS Forrest, steamer, tugboat, burned: February 10, 1862
CSS Fulton
CSS Gaines, side-wheel steamer
CSS General Quitman, steamer, destroyed: April 24, 1862
CSS General Polk, steamer, destroyed: June 26, 1862
CSS George Page, side-wheel river steamer, burned
CSS Germantown sloop-of-war, sunk as blockship May 10, 1862
CSS Governor Moore, side-wheel steamer, schooner rigged, destroyed: April 23, 1862. Also listed as a Cotton Clad ram (see below) since she had cotton as part of her armor.
CSS Hampton, screw steamer, burned: April 4, 1865
CSS Harmony, steamer, tug
CSS Helen, side-wheel steamer; Charleston harbor gunboat: sank March 10, 1864
CSS Henry Dodge, cutter, schooner rigged
CSS Huntress, side-wheel steamer
CSS Isondiga, steamer, burned: December 21, 1864
CSS Ivy, side-wheel river steamer, burned: 1863
CSS J. A. Cotton, a side-wheel river steamer, burned: January 14, 1863 (See Bayou Teche and USS Kinsman). Sometimes called an ironclad since she had a small amount of railroad iron tacked onto her side.
CSS Jackson, side-wheel river steamer, tug, sunk
CSS Jamestown, side-wheel steamer, sunk: May, 1862
CSS Junaluska, steamer, tug, dismantled: 1862
CSS Kate Bruce, schooner, scuttled
CSS Lady Davis, steamer tug, iron, machinery mounted in CSS Palmetto
CSS Launch No. 3, steamer, captured: April, 1862
CSS Launch No. 2, steamer, destroyed: April 24, 1862
CSS Livingston, side-wheel steamer, destroyed: June 26, 1862
CSS Macon, steamer
CSS Matilda, bark
CSS Maurepas, side-wheel steamer, sunk: June, 1862
CSS McRae, screw steamer, sloop rigged, sunk: April 28, 1862
CSS Morgan, side-wheel steamer, surrender: 1865
CSS Morgan, cutter
CSS Morning Light, sail, burned: January 23, 1863
CSS Nansemond, twin-screw gunboat, burned: April 3, 1865
CSS Neptune, steamer, sunk: January 1, 1863
CSS Nina, steamer
CSS Oregon, steamer, scuttled: Apr, 1862
CSS Pamlico, side-wheel river steamer, burned: 1862
CSS Patrick Henry, side-wheel steamer, CSNA school ship, burned: April 4, 1865
CSS Pedee, screw steamer, sunk: 1865
CSS Plymouth, sloop-of-war, burned: 1862
CSS Polk, side-wheel river steamer, burned
CSS Pontchartrain, side-wheel river steamer, burned: 1863
CSS Raleigh, steamer
CSS Rappahannock, formerly St. Nicholas until seized and purchased in 1861, side-wheel steamer, burned: April, 1862
CSS Rescue, cutter, schooner rigged
CSS Resolute, burned: April 24, 1862
CSS Roanoke, screw steamer, destroyed: April 4, 1865
CSS Queen of the West
CSS Sampson, side-wheel river steamer
CSS Savannah, steamer, foundered: August 18, 1863
CSS Schultz, formerly A.H. Schultz, until seized and purchased in 1861, side-wheel steamer, used as a flag of truce vessel, sunk: February 17, 1865
CSS Sea Bird, side-wheel river steamer, sunk: February 10, 1862
CSS Selma, side-wheel river steamer, captured: August 5, 1864
CSS Spray, steam tug, sunk
CSS St. Mary, side-wheel river steamer, burned
CSS Stono, burned: 1865
CSS Talomico, side-wheel steamer, sunk: 1863
CSS Teaser, tug, captured: 1862
CSS Tiger
CSS Torpedo, screw steamer, tug/tender, iron, burned: April 4, 1865
CSS Tropic
CSS Tuscarora, side-wheel steamer, burned
CSS Velocity
CSS Washington, schooner
CSS Water Witch, side-wheel steamer, burned: December 19, 1864
CSS Winslow, side-wheel river steamer, wrecked
CSS Yadkin, steamer, burned: 1865

Torpedo boats

Photograph of a captured David class torpedo boat (possibly CSS David herself), taken after the fall of Charleston in 1865

CSS David, semi-submersible torpedo boat
CSS David, larger version of David, captured incomplete: February, 1865
CSS Gunnison, screw steam spar torpedo boat
CSS Hornet, spar torpedo boat
CSS Juno, steam torpedo boat
CSS Midge, steam torpedo boat, captured: February, 1865
CSS Scorpion, spar torpedo boat
CSS Squib, spar torpedo boat
CSS Squire
CSS St. Patrick, semi-submersible torpedo boat or submarine
CSS Torch, screw steamer spar torpedo boat
CSS Wasp, spar torpedo boat

CSN Support ships

Government blockade runners

CSS Robert E Lee

CSS William G Hewes later USS Malvern

CSS Florida renamed USS Henderick Hudson

CSS Lady Sterling renamed USS Hornet

CSS Advance, side-wheel steamer, captured: September 10, 1864
CSS Florida, screw steamer
CSS Harriet Lane, side-wheel steamer, captured
CSS Kate Dale
CSS Lady Stirling, side-wheel steamer, captured: October 28, 1864
CSS Owl
CSS Rob Roy
CSS Robert E. Lee
CSS William G. Hewes, (later SS Ella and Annie), captured: November 9, 1863
CSS Enterprise
CSS General Whiting, side-wheel steamer

Government steamers

CSS Admiral, side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862
CSS Atlanta
CSS Appomattox, screw steamer, burned: February 10, 1862
CSS Beaufort
CSS Beauregard, side-wheel coastal steamer, captured: December, 1864
CSS Capitol, side-wheel river steamer burned: June 28, 1862
CSS Campion, side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862
CSS Curlew
CSS Ellis
CSS Fanny
CSS George Page
CSS Governor Moore
CSS Grampus, stern-wheel river steamer, scuttled: April 7, 1862
CSS Grand Duke
CSS Ida, side-wheel coastal steamer, captured/burned: December 10, 1864
CSS Jamestown
CSS Nashville, 1861
CSS Ohio Belle, side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862
CSS Patrick Henry
CSS Prince, side-wheel river steamer, sunk: April 7, 1862
CSS Raleigh, 1861
CSS Red Rover, side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862
CSS Sea Bird
CSS Selma
CSS Tennessee, side-wheel steamer, captured: January, 1862
CSS Winchester, side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862

Federal ram USS Queen of the West attacks CSS City of Vicksburg.

Government transports

CSS Planter

CSS Bombshell
CSS City of Vicksburg, side-wheel steamer transport, damaged when rammed on February 3, 1863 then destroyed: February/March 1863
CSS Cotton Plant
CSS Darlington
CSS Mars, side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862
CSS The Planter, side-wheel steamer, captured by its slave pilot Robert Smalls, May 13, 1862
CSS Sumter
CSS Yazoo, side-wheel river steamer, sunk: April 7, 1862

Cutters

CSS Duane, revenue cutter, schooner rigged
CSS Lewis Cass, revenue cutter, schooner rigged
CSS Manassas, revenue cutter, schooner rigged, dismantled
CSS Pickens, revenue cutter, schooner rigged

Hospital ships

CSS Kanawha Valley, stern-wheel river steamer, burned: April 7, 1862

Tenders and tugs

Uncle Ben captured 1861

CSS Alert, lighthouse tender, schooner rigged
CSS Beaufort, tugboat
CSS Caswell, side-wheel steamer tender, burned
CSS Firefly, side-wheel steamer tender, burned: December 21, 1864
CSS Indian Chief, receiving ship, burned
CSS Resolute, side-wheel steamer, tugboat, captured: December 12, 1864
CSS Retribution, steam tugboat, sold: March 8, 1863
CSS Satellite, sidewheel steamer, gunboat/tugboat, destroyed: August, 1863
CSS Shrapnel, tender, burned: April 4, 1865
CSS St. Philip, receiving ship, sunk
CSS Uncle Ben, steam tugboat, machinery mounted into CSS North Carolina II (renamed "Retribution" and "Etta")

Civilian auxiliary

Privateers

A. C. Gunnison, privateer steam tug
Beauregard, privateer cutter, schooner rigged, captured: November 12, 1861
Bonita, 8-gun, 1,110-ton privateer steamer
Boston, 5-gun privateer steamer operating out of Mobile burned captured barques Lenex and Texana
Charlotte Clark, 3-gun, 1,110-ton privateer steamer
Chesapeake, 4-gun, 60-ton privateer schooner
Dixie, privateer schooner, captured on April 15, 1862, but had itself captured the USA Schooner Mary Alice on July 25, 1861, the USA Barque Glenn on July 31 of 1861.
Dove, 8-gun, 1,170-ton privateer steamer
Gallatin, 150-ton privateer schooner with 2 × 12-pdr
General N.S. Reneau, privateer steamer
Gibralter, privateer schooner
Gordon, privateer, which captured the USA Brigandine William McGilvery on July 25, 1861, the USA Schooner Protector on July 28, 1861.
Governor A. Mouton, privateer steamer, captured: May 11, 1862
Hallie Jackson, privateer brig captured by USS Union
Isabella, privateer screw steamer
J. C. Calhoun, privateer side-wheel steamer, which captured the Barque Ocean Eagle on May 16, 1861, the ship Milan in May, 1861, the Schooner Etta in May, 1861, the Brigandine Panama on May 29, 1861, the Schooner Mermaid on May 24, 1861 and the Schooner John Adams on May 24, 1861, all within its first month of operation in 1861, and which was burned: 1862
J. M. Chapman, privateer schooner, captured: March 15, 1863
J. O. Nixon, privateer schooner
Jefferson Davis, privateer brig, ran aground: mid-August, 1861
Joseph Landis, 400-ton privateer steamer
Josephine, privateer schooner
Judah, privateer schooner, destroyed: September 14, 1861
Lamar, privateer schooner
Lorton, privateer schooner
Mariner, privateer screw steamer, which captured the US schooner Nathaniel Chase on July 25, 1861.
Mocking Bird, 8-gun, 1,290-ton privateer steamer operating out of New Orleans
Music, privateer steamer
Onward, 70-ton privateer schooner with 1 × 32-pdr
Paul Jones, 2-gun, 160-ton privateer schooner
Pelican, 10-gun, 1,479-ton privateer steamer
Petrel, privateer, went to sea on July 1, 1861 and sunk on July 28, 1861 by the Union Navy frigate USS St. Lawrence.
Phenix, 7-gun, 1,644-ton privateer steamer
Sallie, privateer schooner
Savannah, privateer schooner, captured: June 3, 1861
Sealine, privateer brig
Theodora, privateer side-wheel steamer
Triton, 30-ton privateer schooner with 1 × 6-pdr
V. H. Ivy, privateer steamer
York, privateer pilot boat, schooner rigged, which was burned on August 9, 1861, after capturing the US brigandine B.T. Martin about July 28, 1861 and the schooner George G. Baker on August 9, 1861, on the day of its demise, whereafter the Union quickly recaptured the George G. Baker.

Privateer submersible torpedo boats

H. L. Hunley, hand-cranked, sunk: February 17, 1864. Named in honor of its designer, Confederate marine engineer Horace Lawson Hunley.
Pioneer
American Diver, also known as Pioneer II
Bayou Saint John

Civilian steamers

Dick Keys, captured: May 7, 1861
Lewis, captured: May 7, 1861
Swan, of Savannah

Civilian transports

Berwick Bay, steamer, captured February 3, 1863
O.W. Baker, steamer, captured February 3, 1863
Moro, steamer, captured February 3, 1863
Era No. 5, shallow-draft steamer, captured: February 14, 1863

Civilian blockade runners

Adela, side-wheel steamer
Agnes E. Fry, paddle steamer
Alabama, schooner
Annie, schooner
Annie Dees, steamer, sloop-rigged
Ariel, schooner
Banshee, side-wheel steamer
Bat, side-wheel steamship, captured: October 10, 1864
Bermuda, screw steamer
Caroline, side-wheel steamer (also known as USS Arizona)
Charlotte, schooner
Chatham, side-wheel steamer
Fergus, paddle-steamer

Colonel Lamb, side-wheel steamer
Constance Decimer (also known as Constance), side-wheel steamer
Darlington, side-wheel steamer
Donegal, side-wheel steamer
Edith, steamer (Later CSS Chickamauga)
Ella, side-wheel steamer
Ella and Annie, side-wheel steamer (Captured April 1863)

Ella and Annie as USS Malvern

Emma, screw steamer
Etiwan, sloop
Eugenie, side-wheel steamer
Eugenie Smith, schooner
Flamingo, side-wheel steamer
General Banks, paddle steamer (later Fanny and Jenny)
Gibraltar, screw steamer, bark-rigged
Granite City, side-wheel steamer
Lady Davis, steamer
Lelia, paddle-steamer
Magnolia, side-wheel steamer
Mary Bowers, side-wheel steamer
Memphis, screw steamer (later USS Memphis)
Monticello, Cuban blockade runner
Nita, side-wheel steamer
Norseman
Old Dominion, paddle steamer
Preston, steamer
Rob Roy, schooner
Rosalie, sloop
Ruby, side-wheel steamer
San Quintin, Cuban blockade runner
Sarah and Caroline, schooner
Shark, schooner
Stonewall, schooner
Stonewall Jackson, (ex-Leopard), side-wheel steamer
Syren, side-wheel steamer
Thistle, side-wheel steamer
Thomas L. Wragg, side-wheel steamer, brig-rigged (later, privateer Rattlesnake)
Tristram Shandy, side-wheel steamer
Two Sisters, schooner
Virginia, screw steamer
Wando, steamer
Wild Cat, schooner

Foreign blockade runners

Antona, screw steamer
Britannia, side-wheel steamer
Don, screw steamer
Denbigh side-wheel steamer, schooner rigged
Fingal, steamer
Gertrude, screw steamer
Isabel steamer
J. W. Wilder, schooner
Julia, sloop
Lark, side-wheel steamer
Lodona, screw steamer
Penquin, side-wheel steamer
Peterhoff, screw steamer
Preston, screw steamer
Prince Albert, side-wheel steamer
Princess Royal, screw steamer
Thistle, screw steamer
Velocity, schooner
Victory, screw steamer
Vulture, paddle steamer
Wren, side-wheel steamer

CS Army

CSA cotton-clads

USS {later CSS} Queen of the West

CSS Stonewall Jackson

CSS Governor Moore after the fight

Ex-CSS USS General Bragg

Ex-CSS General Price

CSS Webb burned April 1865

Used for river defense, CS Army cottonclads were typically more lightly armored and reinforced than a regular ironclad, such as the General Sterling Price, which was converted by placing a 4-inch oak sheath with a 1-inch iron covering on her bow, and by installing double pine bulkheads filled with compressed cotton bales. Many of the cottonclads were outfitted with rams.

River Defense Fleet cotton-clads:

CSS Colonel Lovell, side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad ram, sunk: June 6, 1862
CSS General Beauregard, steamer, cotton-clad ram, sunk: June 6, 1862
CSS General Bragg, steamer, cotton-clad ram, captured: June 6, 1862
CSS Breckinridge, stern-wheel steamer, cotton-clad ram, burned: Apr, 1862
CSS Defiance, side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad ram, burned: 1862
CSS General Earl Van Dorn, steamer, cotton-clad ram, burned
CSS General M. Jeff Thompson, steamer, cotton-clad ram, sunk: June 6, 1862
CSS General Sterling Price, steamer, cotton-clad ram, sunk: June 6, 1862; raised into Union service
CSS General Sumter, steamer, cotton-clad ram, captured: June 6, 1862
CSS Governor Moore, steamer, schooner rigged, cotton-clad ram, destroyed: April 24, 1862
CSS Little Rebel, steamer, cotton-clad ram, captured: June 6, 1862
CSS Resolute, side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad ram
CSS Stonewall Jackson, side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad ram, burned: April 24, 1862
CSS Warrior, side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad ram, destroyed: April, 1862

Other CS Army cotton-clads:

CSS Grand Duke, steamer, cotton-clad, burned: 1863
CSS Josiah A. Bell, steamer, cotton-clad, operated by Texas Marine Department
CSS Queen of the West, river steamer, cotton-clad and ironclad ram, exploded: April 14, 1863
CSS Uncle Ben, steamer, cotton-clad, operated by Texas Marine Department
CSS Webb, river steamer, cotton-clad ram, transferred to CS Navy early 1865, burned: April, 1865

Other CSA Boats

CSA Bayou City, CS Army gunboat, side-wheel steamer
CSA General Lee, CS Army transport, which was captured by the Union on August 10, 1862 while the transport was on the Savannah River in Georgia
CSA John Simonds, CS Army support ship, side-wheel steamer, sunk: April 7, 1862
CSA Louisville, CS Army cargo steamer, captured: July 13, 1863
CSA Planter, CS Army transport, side-wheel steamer, surrendered: May 13, 1862
CSA Neptune, CS Army tugboat, sank: January 1, 1863

Other

Prizes

Alvarado - prize bark, captured: by privateer Jefferson Davis, July 21, 1861
Enchantress - prize schooner, captured: by privateer Jefferson Davis July 6, 1861

Undetermined

CSS Segar
CSS Smith
CSS W. R. Miles

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