The Confederate Navy March 15, 1861

From the March 15, 1861, Richmond Dispatch.

If the sides during the war wanted to know numbers and locations of the enemy, all they really had to do was a copy of the enemy's newspaper which were tell-all.  I'm sure Union "spies" were really happy to get this information.

The previous entry, I wrote about the USS Corwin which was a revenue cutter, but one that wasn't seized by Confederate forces in the early days of the country.

CS Navy revenue cutters seized from the U.S. government:

McClelland, 4 side guns, 1 pivot, 35 crew. (Later became the CSS Pickens)
Lewis Cass, one 69 pdr., 45 men
Aiken, one 42-pdr, 35 men (Became the privateer Petrol and sunk by the USS St. Lawrence)
Washington, one 42-pdr.
Dodge, one pivot gun

Also, there was the propeller tug James Gray, purchased in Richmond and mounting a 42-pdr Columbiad

Bonita, a slave ship brig being converted into a war vessel
Nina, steamship, gunboat, mounts one gun and has just returned to Charleston from a ten-day cruise off the coast.
Everglade-- steamer
USS Fulton, steamer seized at Pensacola Navy Yard while in ordinary, four 32-pdrs.  Will cost $10,000 to get ready for sea.

Thanks Richmond Paper.  --Old B-R'er