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20192
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This article looks at the career of US Naval Officer and later chief foreign agent and naval officer for the Confederacy James Dunwoody Bulloch focusing on his life in the years during the Civil War. Attention is given to Bulloch's work as an agent with the Confederate Navy, detailing the design, construction, financing and actions of vessels with which he was involved, including the ORETO also known as the CSS FLORIDA, the CSS ALABAMA, FINIGAL, PALERMO, MANASSAS, ENRICA, CITY OF RICHMOND, STONEWALL, COQUETTE, BAHAMA, ADVENTURE, ENTERPRISE, AJAX, HERCULES as well as two rams later to be named SCORPION and WIVERN by the British government. Several other vessels and Confederate Naval details are included.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 24 Issue 3, July 1947,
p315-366, f
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22561
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An iron marker now sits at the site of the Confederate Navy Yard in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Navy Yard operated from spring of 1862 until 1865. Commanded by first by General R.L. Page and later by H. Ashton Ramsay, a number of large structures were erected on site, including a gun carriage shop, a laboratory, a torpedo shop, a forge where propeller shafting was forged for all the Confederate ironclads. Rifles, shot, shells, and torpedoes were also manufactured at the Navy Yard in Charlotte.
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The North Carolina Booklet
(NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 23 Issue 1,2,3,4, January 1926,
p28-37
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