CSS FLORIDA

At least three ships of the Confederate States Navy were named 'CSS' '''Florida''' in honor of the third Confederate state:

★ The blockade runner CSS ''Florida'' was commissioned in January 1862, captured by the U.S. Navy in April 1862, and became USS ''Hendrick Hudson''.

★ The cruiser CSS ''Florida'' was commissioned in August 1862 and captured by the U.S. Navy while in port in Bahia, Brazil in October 1864.

★ The gunboat CSS ''Selma'' was named CSS ''Florida'' prior to July 1862.

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See also

★ USS ''Florida''.

★ James Dunwoody Bulloch Confederate agent and uncle of Theodore Roosevelt who covertly bought the Florida

★ CSS Alabama

★ Confederate Navy