Civil War Trivia

[Hancock the Superb]

Ames was in command of the 20 Maine at a point. Why would he be in the artillery?

[MG JB Gordon]

Hancock the Superb wrote:

Ames was in command of the 20 Maine at a point. Why would he be in the artillery?

He was'nt in command of the 20th after Malvern Hill, he thought he would gain rank faster in the Infantry so he went back to Maine and requested reassignment.

My Question: What CSS vessal had 6 owners(countries) and 5 different names? List the owners and the names.

[Hancock the Superb]

I'm just going to say the Alabama, whatever names, at England, US, something, England again, then Confederacy.

[MG JB Gordon]

Hancock the Superb wrote:

I'm just going to say the Alabama, whatever names, at England, US, something, England again, then Confederacy.

nope.....

[Armchair General]

The CSS Stonewall was built for the Confederacy, by a French shipbuilder and it was called the Sphinx. The US government pressured the French government to sell the ship, which it did, to Denmark, who called it the Staer Kodder, but when it was going to the US, news of the wars end reached the ship, and it was sold to Cuba, who gave it to the US, who sold it to Japan, who named it the Azuma.

Is this the ship you're looking for?

[Hancock the Superb]

There seems to be enough names and countries.

[MG JB Gordon]

Armchair General wrote:

The CSS Stonewall was built for the Confederacy, by a French shipbuilder and it was called the Sphinx. The US government pressured the French government to sell the ship, which it did, to Denmark, who called it the Staer Kodder, but when it was going to the US, news of the wars end reached the ship, and it was sold to Cuba, who gave it to the US, who sold it to Japan, who named it the Azuma.

Is this the ship you're looking for?

Correct ship, you where just missing one name. Japan named it twice the other name was:
Kotetsu

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[estabu2]

That seems like an aweful lot of naming and renaming and selling and reselling. I wonder if the ship was really worth it.

[MG JB Gordon]

CSS Stonewall, a 1390-ton ironclad ram, was built in Bordeaux, France her name: Sphinx, for the Confederate Navy. Embargoed by the French government in February 1864, prior to her launching, she was subsequently sold to Denmark her name: Staerkodder. Upon completion of her construction in late 1864, the Danish government would not accept delivery and her builder secretly resold her to the Confederates.

Commissioned at sea as CSS Stonewall in January 1865, she attempted to obtain supplies in French waters, then sailed for Madeira, Azores, en route to America, where she was ordered to attack Federal naval forces and commercial shiping. Forced into Ferrol, Spain, by a storm, she was confronted by USS Niagara and USS Sacramento in March 1865. However, these wooden warships avoided action when the well-armed and armored Stonewall put to sea on 24 March. After calling at Lisbon, Portugal, the Confederate ironclad crossed the Atlantic, reaching Havana, Cuba, in May. As the Civil War had then ended, she was turned over to Spanish Authorities.

In July 1865, the Spanish delivered Stonewall to the United States Government. She was laid up at the Washington Navy Yard, D.C., for the next two years, and then sold to Japan. In Japanese service, she was initially named Kôtetsu and, after 1871, Azuma.


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[Hancock the Superb]

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