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CSS Chickamauga

It would seem that following the battle the Confederates changed the name of one of their ships from the ‘Edith’ to the ‘Chickamauga’. I found the following notes in a document in the Public Records Office in London, UK.

 

Document ref: FO 881/2066. The FO denotes it as a British Foreign Office document.

 

 

From Lieutenant-Governor Hamley to Rear-Admiral Glasse, Mount Langton, November 7 1864.

Sir,

I have the honour to request that you will be pleased to cause the Confederate-States War Steamer “Chickamauga” [3 guns], now lying in Five-Fathom Hole, to be surveyed with a view to ascertaining;

1. What repairs to her machinery the vesel requires, and the time that it will take to effect those repairs.

2. The quantity of coal now in the vessel, and the additional quantity (if any) that will be required to enable her to proceed to the nearest Confederate port; and that you will be pleased to advise me on these points.

I shall be further obliged if, in case of your considering the “Chickamauga” to need repairs, that you will give an opinion as to where those repairs shall be executed.

 

 

The note below was the response in the FO file, showing that the vessel had changed her name, presumably after Bragg’s victory.  The file also indicates that the repairs needed were to the engine.

 

 

November 7, 1864.

The “Chickamauga”, late “Edith” arrived under the Confederate flag, 171 men; she gave out that she had destroyed six vessels, names unknown.  She was officially reported to have 75 tons of coal on board, and was authorized to take on twenty five tons to carry her to the nearest Southern port. She left November 15.

 

 

 

 

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