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CSS Fanny, the Glossary

CSS Fanny was a small propeller-driven steam tug used by the Confederate States Navy to defend the sounds of northeastern North Carolina in the American Civil War.^[1]

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Balloon tenders
Maritime incidents in February 1862
Ships of the Confederate States Navy
Steam tugs

Aircraft carrier

An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft.

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The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Balloon (aeronautics)

In aeronautics, a balloon is an unpowered aerostat, which remains aloft or floats due to its buoyancy.

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Balloon carrier

A balloon carrier or balloon tender was a ship equipped with a balloon, usually tied to the ship by a rope or cable, and usually used for observation.

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Battle of Elizabeth City

The Battle of Elizabeth City of the American Civil War was fought in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Roanoke Island.

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Battle of Hampton Roads

The Battle of Hampton Roads, also referred to as the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack (rebuilt and renamed as the CSS Virginia) or the Battle of Ironclads, was a naval battle during the American Civil War.

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Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries

The Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries (August 28–29, 1861) was the first combined operation of the Union Army and Navy in the American Civil War, resulting in Union domination of the strategically important North Carolina Sounds.

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Battle of Roanoke Island

The opening phase of what came to be called the Burnside Expedition, the Battle of Roanoke Island was an amphibious operation of the American Civil War, fought on February 7–8, 1862, in the North Carolina Sounds a short distance south of the Virginia border.

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Blockade runners of the American Civil War

During the American Civil War, blockade runners were used to get supplies through the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America that extended some along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastlines and the lower Mississippi River.

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Buena Vista (Roanoke, Virginia)

Buena Vista is a historic plantation house located in Roanoke, Virginia.

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Cape Hatteras Lighthouse

Cape Hatteras Light is a lighthouse located on Hatteras Island in the Outer Banks in the town of Buxton, North Carolina and is part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.

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Confederate States Army

The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting against the United States forces to win the independence of the Southern states and uphold and expand the institution of slavery.

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Confederate States Navy

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.

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CSS Curlew

CSS Curlew was an iron-hull North Carolina Sounds paddlewheel steamboat that was taken into the Confederate Navy in 1861. CSS Fanny and CSS Curlew are Maritime incidents in February 1862, ship fires, Shipwrecks of the American Civil War and Shipwrecks of the Carolina coast.

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CSS Junaluska

CSS Junaluska, also known as Younalaska, was a screw steamer tugboat that saw service with the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. CSS Fanny and CSS Junaluska are ships of the Confederate States Navy and steam tugs.

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CSS Louisiana

CSS Louisiana was a casemate ironclad of the Confederate States Navy built to aid in defending the lower Mississippi River from invasion by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. CSS Fanny and CSS Louisiana are Shipwrecks of the American Civil War.

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CSS Raleigh (1861)

CSS Raleigh was originally a small, iron-hulled, propeller-driven towing steamer operating on the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal. CSS Fanny and CSS Raleigh (1861) are ship fires, ships of the Confederate States Navy and Shipwrecks of the American Civil War.

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Elizabeth City, North Carolina

Elizabeth City is a city in Pasquotank and Camden counties, North Carolina, United States.

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George Plater Tayloe

George Plater Tayloe (October 15, 1804 – Apr 18, 1897) was a Virginia businessman, soldier and legislator who also served as one of the original trustees of Hollins University.

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Gunboat

A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.

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Harper's Weekly

Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City.

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Hatteras Inlet

Hatteras Inlet is an estuary in North Carolina, located along the Outer Banks, separating Hatteras Island and Ocracoke Island.

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James River

The James River is a river in Virginia that begins in the Appalachian Mountains and flows from the confluence of the Cowpasture and Jackson Rivers in Botetourt County U.S. Geological Survey.

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John LaMountain

John LaMountain (1830 Wayne County, New York – February 14, 1870 South Bend, Indiana) was a ballooning pioneer.

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Manokin River

Manokin River is a river in Somerset County, Maryland, that flows into Tangier Sound, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Outer Banks

The Outer Banks (frequently abbreviated OBX) are a string of barrier islands and spits off the coast of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, on the east coast of the United States.

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Propeller

A propeller (colloquially often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral which, when rotated, exerts linear thrust upon a working fluid such as water or air.

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Roanoke Island

Roanoke Island is an island in Dare County, bordered by the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

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Roanoke, Virginia

Roanoke is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Steam engine

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

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Sylvanus Sawyer

Sylvanus Sawyer (15 April 1822 in Templeton, Massachusetts – 13 October 1895, in Fitchburg, Massachusetts) was a United States inventor.

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Tugboat

A tugboat or tug is a marine vessel that manoeuvres other vessels by pushing or pulling them, with direct contact or a tow line.

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United States Army Quartermaster Corps

The United States Army Quartermaster Corps, formerly the Quartermaster Department, is a sustainment and former combat service support (CSS) branch of the United States Army.

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USS Louisiana (1861)

The second USS Louisiana was a propeller-driven iron-hull steamer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. CSS Fanny and USS Louisiana (1861) are gunboats of the United States Navy, Shipwrecks of the American Civil War and Shipwrecks of the Carolina coast.

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Washington Navy Yard

The Washington Navy Yard (WNY) is a ceremonial and administrative center for the United States Navy, located in Washington, D.C. It is the oldest shore establishment of the U.S. Navy, situated along the Anacostia River in the Navy Yard neighborhood of Southeast D.C. Formerly operating as a shipyard and ordnance plant, the yard currently serves as home to the Chief of Naval Operations and is headquarters for the Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Reactors, Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command, Naval History and Heritage Command, Navy Installations Command, the National Museum of the United States Navy, the U.S.

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20th Indiana Infantry Regiment

The 20th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Fanny

CSS Fanny, the Glossary

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See also

Balloon tenders

Maritime incidents in February 1862

Ships of the Confederate States Navy

Steam tugs

References