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    CSS Sumter, converted from the 1859-built merchant steamer Habana, was the first steam cruiser of the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil...
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  • Forest Sumter County, Alabama Sumter County, Florida Sumter County, Georgia Sumter County, South Carolina Sumter Township, McLeod County, Minnesota CSS Sumter...
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    ensign flown aboard his previous command, the smaller commerce raider CSS Sumter. Between 21 May and 28 November 1861, six more Southern states seceded...
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  • USS Sumter may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: USS Sumter (1862), the former CSS General Sumter, a cottonclad ram captured in...
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    turned over at war's end CSS Shenandoah, screw steamer, full rigged, iron-framed, turned over to British Government CSS Sumter, screw steamer, sloop, sold:...
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    Fort Sumter is a sea fort built on an artificial island near Charleston, South Carolina to defend the region from a naval invasion. It was built after...
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    prisoner. The Union forces captured and repaired CSS General Price, CSS General Bragg, CSS Sumter, and CSS Little Rebel, and added them to the Mississippi...
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    career as a blockade runner. [CSS Sumter is not the CSS General Sumter cottonclad river gunboat (1861–1862), then named USS Sumter on capture and deployed in...
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    American Civil War. Sumter originally was the Confederate cottonclad ram CSS General Sumter. She was placed into Confederate service and then United States Navy...
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    States sloop-of-war was commanded by Captain Raphael Semmes, formerly of CSS Sumter. It was Captain Semmes' intention to drydock his ship and receive repairs...
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