. The C.S.S Nashville sailed from Southampton England on Feb. 3, 1862. The H.M.S. Shannon stood by to prevent the U.S.S. Tuscarora from sailing in pursuit. A long standing international agreement stipulated that when two belligerent war ships were in a neutral port at the same time the two opposing ships could not sail togeather. The U.S.S. Tuscarora had to wait 24 hours before she could sail. The Nashville was an iron-clad sidewheeler, and provide valuable work in the defense of Mobile, Alabama.
On Feb. 6th, 1862 the C.S.S. Louisiana was launched! The Louisiana was an iron-clad with both screw and paddlewheel propulsion. She was able to withstand all the punishment that Porter's fleet fired at her on the Missippii river.
Feb. 10th, 1862 the Damnyankee fleet, under Flag Officer Farragut, was assembling in the Gulf of Mexico to begin the capture of New Orleans, Louisiana!
Feb. 17th, 1862, the C.S.S. Virgiana, the captured U.S.S. Merrimack, was commissioned at Norfolk, Virginia. There are no know photographs of the C.S.S. Virginia.
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis had a number of things in common. One of the saddest was that both had sons who died during the war. On February 12, 1862, Lincoln's twelve year old son, Willie, died of typhoid; Davis' five year old son, Joe, died in a fall on April 30th, 1864.
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