CSS Carondelet
CSS ''Carondelet'' was a sidewheel steamer that served in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Construction for the vessel started in 1861, and she was launched on January 25, 1862, and commissioned on March 16. Her sister ship was CSS ''Bienville''. On April 4, ''Carondelet'', along with CSS ''Oregon'' and CSS ''Pamlico'', took part in a small naval action near Pass Christian against USS ''New London'', USS ''John P. Jackson'', and the troop transport USS ''Henry Lewis''. ''Carondelet'' suffered damage to her wheel during the fight, and likely fired the only two shots that struck ''John P. Jackson''. Later that month, with the Confederates abandoning New Orleans, Louisiana, ''Carondelet'' was scuttled by her crew in either Lake Pontchartrain, the Tchefuncte River, or the Bogue Falaya River. Service history In late 1861, during the American Civil War, Confederate authorities were establishing a naval force to defend New Orleans, Louisiana. Man ...
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Confederate States Navy
The Confederate States Navy (CSN) was the Navy, naval branch of the Confederate States Armed Forces, established by an act of the Confederate States Congress on February 21, 1861. It was responsible for Confederate naval operations during the American Civil War against the United States's Union Navy. The three major tasks of the Confederate States Navy during its existence were the protection of Confederate harbors and coastlines from outside invasion, making the war costly for the United States by attacking its merchant ships worldwide, and Blockade runners of the American Civil War, running the Union blockade, U.S. blockade by drawing off Union ships in pursuit of Confederate commerce raiders and warships. It was ineffective in these tasks, as the coastal blockade by the United States Navy reduced trade by the South to 5 percent of its pre-war levels. Additionally, the control of inland rivers and coastal navigation by the US Navy forced the south to overload its limited railroa ...
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