Just checked the master ship list compiled from the
Official Record-Navies, and both a
CSS Merrimack and
CSS Richmond are listed.
The
CSS Tallahassee is well known. Built in England, she was originally named
Atlanta. Name was changed to
CSS Tallahassee when commissioned into the Confederate Navy. She was a twin-screw capable of 14 knots, with a crew of 110 and armed with a 32-pounder rifle, another lighter rifled piece, and a brass howitzer (most likely a 12-pounder?). Her notoriety rests on a single cruise from August 6th, 1864 until October 29th, 1864. On that latter date her name was changed to the
Olustee, and received a different commander. During her brief cruise she burned 16 vessels, scuttled 10, bonded 5 and released 2. Area of operation was off the northern Atlantic coast, and many of the ships captured were of the schooner type.*
The first three volumes of the
O.R.-Navies deal exclusively with the operations of the cruisers.
I would do a search based on the names of those other ships on the Cornell library site given earlier in this thread and see what hits you get.
http://www.csnavy.org/Above is a nice site for general info.
http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/uniform_confed.htmAbove gives the official regulations for uniform dress of the Confederate Navy.
http://users.wowway.com/~jenkins/ironclads/ironclad.htmNice site for info on Ironclads and Blockade Runners.
Sorry if I've gotten carried away, 3D.
Obviously, subject fascinates me. (I've even got my oldest nephew trained to buy me a volume of the
O.R.-Navies whenever he can find one secondhand for my birthday each year. One of these days I'm sure I'll just break down and buy the series on disc, and set my nephew free to pursue other gifts suitable.
)
RCJ
* Gleaned from
History of the Confederate States Navy: From Its Organization To The Surrender Of Its Last Vessel by J. Thomas Scharf, Reprint copyright 1977 by The Fairfax Press, distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc., pps. 806-808