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unusual facts about CSS ''Sumter''



Battle of Albemarle Sound

The rest of the Union fleet managed to recapture a converted steamer called the CSS Bombshell.

Bennett Creek

But the area was captured by Union troops by May 1862 soon after the ironclad CSS Virginia failed to hold off the U.S. Navy at the Battle of Hampton Roads (aka Monitor-Merrimack) within sight of the mouth of Bennett Creek.

Brick Presbyterian Church

Salem Black River Presbyterian Church, Sumter, South Carolina, also known as Brick Church

Chauga River

The Chauga River's source is the confluence of Village Creek and East Village Creek about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Mountain Rest, South Carolina, in the Andrew Pickens Ranger District of the Sumter National Forest.

Corinne Boyd Riley

Riley was associated with the Civilian Personnel Office at Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, South Carolina during World War Two, from 1942 to 1944.

CSS Owl

She was now commanded by Commander John Newland Maffitt, CSN—the "Prince of Privateers"—detached from CSS Albemarle at Plymouth, North Carolina on or about September 9.

Edwin Maffitt Anderson

Edwin Maffitt Anderson (died January 28, 1923) was a Confederate naval officer, serving on board the shipping raiders CSS Alabama and CSS Sumter as well as the master of the blockade runner CSS Owl.

Franz Muller

Although diplomatic relations between the United States and the United Kingdom remained severely strained due to British involvement in the American Civil War (such as the building of Confederate commerce raider the CSS Alabama), an American judge upheld the extradition request to return Müller to Britain.

Jon Harper

He filled in the vacancy for drummer in the Brazilian band Cansei de Ser Sexy (CSS) when Adriano Cintra took the place of Iracema Trevisan as bassist, after she left in April 2008.

Josiah Tattnall

Tattnall, by then a flag officer in the Confederate Navy as well as the Navy of Georgia, directed CSS Jamestown and other warships in captures of Federal merchantmen off Sewell's Point in April 1862.

Mikey Jukebox

Much of his songwriting was influenced by a “1950’s Memphis & Rock ‘N’ Roll” phase (Bill Haley, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Sun Studios-era Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis) combined with a passion for Klaxons, CSS and a love for French House music and early Source Records.

Nate Perry

He grew up in Northern California and has been based in Los Angeles since 1999 where he has performed, toured and recorded with several artists including CSS, Manic, Middle Class Rut, Jesse Spencer of the Fox show House, Fractional Importance, Stars Align, Art of Chaos, and Toadies guitarist Darrel Herbert.

Orlando International Airport

The community of The Villages in Sumter, Lake, and Marion has shuttles operating between the community and Orlando International Airport.

Rufus C. Somerby

The transformation was remarkably simple: "Our figures of Russian soldiers did not need much paint to turn them into Secessionists"; Lord Raglan was remade as Major Anderson, and a model of Fort Sumter was slipped over an extra patch of the Black Sea.

Sea Research Society

The Society has conducted numerous expeditions over the years including expeditions relating to the wrecks of the CSS David, SS Georgiana, SW Mary Bowers, SW Constance, USS Housatonic, the Confederate submarine Hunley, SS Norseman, CSS Sumter and others.

Shavonda E. Sumter

Sumter and her running mate, Benjie E. Wimberly, defeated the Republican candidates, William Connolly and Donna Puglisi.

Sucarnoochee

Sucarnoochee River, a river in Kemper County, Mississippi and Sumter County, Alabama

Sumpter, Wisconsin

At the start of the Civil War, the name was changed to "Sumter," in honor of Fort Sumter, but an error in spelling resulted in the current name.

Sumter-class attack transport

All four ships were struck from the Naval Register shortly after the war in March/April 1946, and all four went on to have successful careers as commercial cargo vessels.

The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama

The painting commemorates the Battle of Cherbourg of 1864, a naval engagement between the Union cruiser USS Kearsarge and the rebel privateer CSS Alabama.

Thomas De Lage Sumter

His parents were Thomas Sumter Jr., Ambassador to Brazil, and Natalie De Lage de Volude, adoptive daughter of Vice President Aaron Burr.

Wilmot, New Hampshire

The state park and the Winslow Trail are named after Captain John Winslow, the commander of the USS Kearsarge, which in June 1864 sank the CSS Alabama in the English Channel in a famous Civil War sea battle.

WRJA

WRJA-FM, a radio station (88.1 FM) licensed to Sumter, South Carolina, United States


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