Thomas Jefferson Page was a naval officer and explorer. He served first in the United States Navy and commanded an expedition which made the first detailed hydrological studies of the Río de la Plata basin in South America. At the outbreak of the American Civil War, he resigned to serve in the Confederate Army and later the Confederate States Navy. Late in the war, Page was captain of the ironclad CSS Stonewall.

Kōtetsu , later renamed Azuma , was the first ironclad warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was designed as an armored ram for service in shallow waters, but also carried three guns. The ship was built in Bordeaux, France, for the Confederate States Navy under the cover name Sphinx, but was sold to Denmark after the sale of warships by French builders to the Confederacy was forbidden in 1863. The Danes refused to accept the ship and sold her to the Confederates which commissioned her as CSS Stonewall in 1865. The ship did not reach Confederate waters before the end of the American Civil War in April and was turned over to the United States.