CSS ''Anglo-Norman'' was a side-wheel steam gunboat of the
Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States or the Confederacy was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865. The Confeder ...
. Built at
Algiers, Louisiana
Algiers is a historic neighborhood of New Orleans and is the only Orleans Parish community located on the West Bank of the Mississippi River. Algiers is known as the 15th Ward, one of the 17 Wards of New Orleans. It was once home to many jazz mu ...
in 1850 and thereafter employed as a towboat by the Southern Steamship Company in
, ''Anglo-Norman'' was seized by Confederate forces on January 16, 1862.
The steamer was one of fourteen ships acquired by Brigadier General
Mansfield Lovell
Mansfield Lovell (October 20, 1822 – June 1, 1884) was a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. As military commander of New Orleans when the city unexpectedly fell to the Union Navy in 1862, Lovell was fier ...
with the backing of the Confederate Secretary of War, for possible conversion to gunboats and rams in the Mississippi
River Defense Fleet
The River Defense Fleet was a set of fourteen vessels in Confederate service, intended to assist in the defense of New Orleans in the early days of the American Civil War. All were merchant ships or towboats that were seized by order of the War De ...
.
At the time of the
action at Ports Jackson and St. Philip, April 1862, ''Anglo-Norman'' was not mentioned as one of the River Defense Fleet. The steamer is recorded as burning on April 27, but nevertheless appears as one of the 22 listed in the prize cases before arbitrators on 1 May 1862.
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Gunboats of the Confederate States Navy