Several revenue cutters operating in Southern ports flew the Confederate flag because their captains surrendered their ships upon the secession of the port they were based in. Early captures at the beginning of the war helped establish Confederate naval forces. The Confederacy was always short of warships and capturing vessels from the enemy proved a repeated effort throughout the conflict. For Part 3, I will look at United States vessels captured and employed by the Confederacy.
In Part 2, I continued that examination, expanding it to examine wooden vessels of the Confederacy captured and repurposed by the United States. In Part 1 of this four-part series, I examined how the United States was able to capture and repurpose three Confederate ironclad warships. (“The Paul Jones of the Confederacy” Munsey’s Magazine, Vol. Read, CSN, transfers his men from one captured enemy merchant to another.
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