The Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia ( with Captain Raphael Semmes) temporarily terrorized a formidable Union fleet in Hampton Roads during March. The seceding states possessed no vessels capable of fighting against the best frigates in the Federal navy, nor did those states possess most of the necessary raw materials and industries needed to build modern warships.ĭespite the Confederacy’s handicaps in creating a navy, its embryonic fleet came tantalizingly close to upsetting the Federal navy’s superiority in March and April of 1862. Jefferson Davis chose Stephen Mallory as Secretary of the Navy. The infant Confederate government quickly established a naval organization. The Federal government’s naval superiority allowed it to project power along thousands of miles of coastline and rivers, subsist large armies in Virginia, and slowly strangle the southern economy by stymieing imports of European and northern manufactures and foodstuffs, as well as of exports of southern staples, primarily raw cotton. Includes bibliographical references and index.The Union navy’s control of the American waters was a decisive element in the outcome of the Civil War. United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Portraits. United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Biography. Military operations, Naval Sailors United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Naval operations - Pictorial works. Sailors - Confederate States of America - Biography. Navy American Civil War (1861-1865) Sailors - United States - Biography. Saved in: Bibliographic Details Author / Creator:īaltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
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