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Photo # NH 59346: CSS Sumter captures the brig Joseph Parks, Sept. 1861

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CSS Sumter (1861-1862) -- Actions & Activities


This page features views of the Confederate Navy cruiser Sumter's actions and activities.

For other images of CSS Sumter and her officers, see:

  • CSS Sumter (1861-1862)


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 42201

    "The Confederate cruiser 'Sumter', Captain Semmes, leaving New Orleans, June 18, 1861."


    Line engraving by Evans, "from a sketch made at the time", published in "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War", Volume II, page 14.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 125KB; 740 x 490 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 51797

    "The Sumter running the blockade of Pass a l' Outre, by the enemy's ship Brooklyn, on the 30th June, 1861."


    Lithograph by A. Hoen & Co., Baltimore, Maryland, copied from "Memoirs of Service Afloat", by Raphael Semmes.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 124KB; 740 x 565 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 54479

    "Running the Blockade. (The Sumter and the Brooklyn)"


    Lithograph by Netherclift, frontispiece of Volume I of "The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter, etc.", by Commander Raphael Semmes, CSN, et al, London, 1864. It depicts CSS Sumter escaping from the Mississippi River past the blockading USS Brooklyn, 30 June 1861.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 107KB; 740 x 530 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42202

    "The Confederate privateer steamer Sumter, taking in coal at the Dutch island of Curacoa, in the Caribbean Sea."


    Line engraving "from a photograph by S.J. Nathans", published in "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper", 24 August 1861.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 107KB; 740 x 550 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 59346

    "The pirate 'Sumter' firing at the brig 'Joseph Parks', of Boston. -- Sketched by one of the Crew of the 'Sumter'."


    Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", January-June 1862, page 65.
    The American merchant ship Joseph Park was captured by CSS Sumter off the northeast coast of South America on 25 September 1861 and burned three days later.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 127KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 91859-KN (Color)

    "Capture by the Confederate war ship Sumter of two Federal merchantmen. Captain Semmes"

    Oil on hardboard, 18 7/8" x 12 7/16", bearing the above title on its back. It is signed and dated on the front: "W.H. Moody, 1877"; and on the back "W.H. Moody, 3/3/77".
    The painting depicts Sumter flying what appears to be an Argentine flag.

    Courtesy of Nigel Burgess, 1981.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 530 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 59352

    "The Sumter running the Blockade of St. Pierre, Martinique, by the enemy's ship 'Iroquois', on the 23d. Nov. 1861."


    Lithograph by A. Hoen & Co., Baltimore, Maryland, copied from "Memoirs of Service Afloat", by Raphael Semmes.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 118KB; 740 x 555 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 59410

    "The Sumter, Kearsarge and Tuscarora at Gibraltar"


    Artwork published in "Service Afloat: or, the Remarkable Career of the Confederate Cruisers Sumter and Alabama ...", by Admiral Raphael Semmes, CSN, 1887.
    It depicts the U.S. warships Tuscarora and Kearsarge keeping watch on the Confederate cruiser Sumter, on 12 April 1862.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 540 pixels

     

    For other images of CSS Sumter and her officers, see:

  • CSS Sumter (1861-1862)


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Coding updated 5 May 2001