Confederate States Navy
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The Confederate States Navy (CSN) was the 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.
Pennant of Admiral Franklin Buchanan used at Battle of Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1864
Confederate naval flag, captured when General William Sherman took Savannah, Georgia, 1864
CSS Virginia, an ironclad warship
A 1961 painting of CSS Alabama
Scuttling
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A ship is scuttled when its crew deliberately sinks it, typically by opening holes in its hull.
A sunken ship at Sevastopol, 1858
Merrimack alight on 20 April 1861
The wreck of USS Merrimac