The U. S. Navy illegally intercepted a British merchant ship the Trent on the high seas and seized two Confederate envoys ; Britain protested vehemently while the U. S. cheered.

On February 6, 1862, Union Navy gunboats quickly reduced the defenses of ill-sited Fort Henry, inflicting 21 casualties on the small remaining Confederate force.

* 1864 – The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.

Mittie's brother, Theodore's uncle, James Dunwoody Bulloch, was a United States Navy officer who became a Confederate Navy commander and secret agent in Britain who was most responsible for the destruction of the United States merchant fleet and procuring ships and supplies to run through the Union blockade.

Former United States Navy Commander Matthew Maury, who served as a commander in the Confederate Navy, worked on the development of an underwater electrical mine.

* CSS Columbia, a Confederate ( and later U. S. Navy ) ironclad ram during the Civil War

His great uncle William T. Glassell was a Confederate States Navy officer.

Stanley thus became possibly the only man to serve in the Confederate Army, the Union Army, and the Union Navy.

* CSS Albemarle, name of a sunken ship belonging to the Confederate Navy

The United States Navy was stressed by the situation as 24 % of its officers resigned and joined the Confederate States Navy, including 95 graduates and 59 midshipmen, as well as many key leaders involved with the founding and establishment of USNA.

The first Superintendent, Admiral Franklin Buchanan, joined the Confederate States Navy as its first and primary admiral.

Captain Sidney Smith Lee, the second commandant of midshipmen, and older brother of Robert E. Lee, left Federal service in 1861 for the Confederate States Navy.

Lieutenant William Harwar Parker, CSN, class of 1848, and instructor at USNA, joined the Virginia State Navy, and then went on to become the superintendent of the Confederate States Naval Academy.

Lieutenant Charles “ Savez ” Read may have been " anchor man " ( graduated last ) in the class of 1860, but his later service to the Confederate States Navy included defending New Orleans, service on CSS Arkansas and CSS Florida, and command of a series of captured Union ships that culminated in seizing the US Revenue Cutter Caleb Cushing in Portland, Maine.

The first superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory, Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury, advocate of the creation of the United States Naval Academy, after whom Maury Hall is named, similarly served in the Confederate States Navy.

In 1861, Dahlgren's commander at the Navy Yard resigned to join the Confederate navy, and President Abraham Lincoln wanted to name Lieutenant Dahlgren to the post of Commander of the Washington Navy Yard.

In addition to textiles, the city had an ironworks and a sword factory as well as a shipyard for the Confederate Navy.

*, a Confederate Navy screw steamer

* William Alexander Graham-United States Secretary of the Navy, United States Senator, member of Confederate Senate, Governor of North Carolina and Whig candidate for the vice president of the US.

During the Civil War, one of the primary objectives of the Union Army and Union Navy was to split the Confederate States in two along the Mississippi River.

* CSS Beaufort, a Confederate Navy gunboat

* Confederate History Month ( southern United States )- April 26

Davis completed A Short History of the Confederate States of America in October 1889.

* Stoker, Donald, " There Was No Offensive-Defensive Confederate Strategy ," Journal of Military History, 73 ( April 2009 ), 571 – 90.

* Gallagher, Gary W. Lee and His Army in Confederate History.

" Persistent Whiggery in the Confederate South, 1860-1877 ," Journal of Southern History, Vol.

A Short History of the Confederate States of America is a memoir written by Jefferson Davis, completed shortly before his death in 1889.

* A Short History of the Confederate States of America at the Internet Archive

A more recent account, by Sally Jenkins ( of the Washington Post ) and John Stauffer ( chair of the Program in the History of the American Civilization and professor of English and of African and African American studies at Harvard University ), which developed from a screenplay, draws on what they claim to be more extensive research to emphasize the extent to which, in the view of those authors, Knight ended Confederate control of Jones County during the war, and the extent of Knight's Unionist and anti-racist sympathies, both during the war and during Reconstruction.

In May, Wetumpka hosts its annual Confederate History and Heritage Day, when the citizens fly the Stars and Bars and march through the streets in period costumes commemorating the antebellum period.

His other works include: Fitz-John Porter in 1883, The Santiago Campaign in 1898, Confederate Military History: Alabama in 1899, and Report on the Island of Guam in 1900.

Confederate Military History: A Library of Confederate States History.

* Civil History of the Government of the Confederate States, with some Personal Reminiscences ( 1901 )

History, race, and civil rights issues came to the forefront on the campus in 2002, when the university decided to rename Confederate Memorial Hall, a residence hall on the Peabody campus as Memorial Hall.

A History of the Confederate Navy, Naval Institute Press, 1996.

The Alabama Department of Archives and History has among its collection an important Confederate naval battle ensign listed as " Admiral Semmes ' Flag, Catalogue No. 86. 1893. 1 ( PN10149-10150 ).

In 1910, he accepted a position with the Arkansas History Commission to mark the graves of all Arkansas Confederate soldiers who had died in northern prisons.

* Evans, Clement Anselm ; " Confederate Military History: A Library of Confederate States History " ( 1899 )

According to the Georgia government's website on Confederate History Month, they also participated in the manufacture of products for the war effort, built naval ships, and provided military assistance and relief efforts ..."

* Wright, Louise Wigfall, A Southern Girl in ' 61: The War-Time Memories of a Confederate Senator's Daughter, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905.

The Gallant Dead: Union & Confederate Generals Killed in the Civil War.

* 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road ( also known as the Second Battle of Fair Oaks ) ends – Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia.

* January 3 – Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Confederate brigadier general, Texas governor, and president of Texas A & M University ( b. 1838 )

* September 27 – Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Confederate brigadier general, Texas governor, and president of Texas A & M University ( d. 1898 )

After the Civil War, under the leadership of former Confederate General William " Billy " Mahone, the Southside Railroad was rebuilt, and in 1870, was combined with the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad and the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad to form Mahone's Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad ( AM & O ), which stretched 400 miles across the southern tier of Virginia from Norfolk on Hampton Roads to Bristol.

( Marion O. Smith, " Confederate Niter District Eight: Middle Tennessee & Northwest Georgia, 2011, 56 pages.

The rebel " Stars & Bars " also flew over Carthage to the west in 1861, following an early Confederate victory at the Battle of Carthage on July 5.

The north / south streets were named Oklahoma, Kansas & Missouri, and the east / west streets north of what is now Broadway were named for Union generals, while the east / west streets to the south were named for Confederate generals.

* Wright, Marcus J., General Officers of the Confederate Army, J. M. Carroll & Co., 1983, ISBN 0-8488-0009-5.

* Wright, Marcus J., General Officers of the Confederate Army, J. M. Carroll & Co., 1983, ISBN 0-8488-0009-5.

Adams and his son, Henry Adams, who acted as his private secretary, also were kept busy monitoring Confederate diplomatic intrigues and the construction of rebel commerce raiders by British shipyards ( like the hull N ° 290, launched as " Enrica " by John Laird & Sons, and which was soon transformed near the Azores Islands into sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ).

* War on the Waters: The Union & Confederate Navies, 1861-1865.

The Confederate Post Office Department therefore awarded the contract to lithographers Hoyer & Ludwig, a small firm in Richmond.

During this brief span, the Confederate Post Office contracted with five different printing companies to produce postage stamps: Archer & Daly of Richmond, Virginia ; Hoyer & Ludwig of Richmond, Virginia ; J. T.

A small number of Types I and II in Archer & Daly printings were perforated and released for use by the Confederate Post Office Department in 1864.

* North & South ( As Confederate States General Robert E. Lee )

The Gallant Dead: Union & Confederate Generals Killed in the Civil War.

The university is named in honor of Lawrence Sullivan " Sul " Ross, the son of a pioneer Texas family who went on to become a Texas Ranger, a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War, the 19th Governor of Texas ( USA ), and a president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, now called Texas A & M University.

Lawrence Sullivan " Sul " Ross ( September 27, 1838January 3, 1898 ) was the 19th Governor of Texas ( USA ), a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War, and a president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, now called Texas A & M University.

* Wright, Marcus J., General Officers of the Confederate Army, J. M. Carroll & Co., 1983, ISBN 0-8488-0009-5.

* Frazier, Donald S. Blood & Treasure: Confederate Empire in the Southwest.

* Frazier, Donald S. Blood & Treasure: Confederate Empire in the Southwest.

However, when he failed to obtain a desired job as a newspaper reporter in Petersburg, he returned to Lynchburg, where he went to work for former Confederate General William Mahone's Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad ( AM & O ) at the company headquarters.