{"id":68340,"date":"2021-06-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=68340"},"modified":"2021-06-11T01:19:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T06:19:29","slug":"css-sumter-running-the-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/css-sumter-running-the-blockade\/","title":{"rendered":"CSS Sumter running the blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/exit78\/26933920663\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-106753 size-full\" title=\"CSS Sumter running the blockade\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Sumter-running-the-blockade.jpg\" alt=\"CSS Sumter running the blockade\" width=\"1024\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Sumter-running-the-blockade.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Sumter-running-the-blockade-300x190.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Sumter-running-the-blockade-768x487.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>The Sumter running the blockade of Pass \u00e0 l&#8217;Outre, by the enemy&#8217;s Ship Brooklyn, on the 30th June, 1861<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/96501648\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Library of Congress<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>1869 Color lithograph by Kelly, Piet &amp; Co., Baltimore<\/p>\n<p>CSS Sumter, a 473-ton bark-rigged screw steam cruiser, was built as the merchant steamship Habana at Philadelphia in 1859 for McConnell&#8217;s New Orleans &amp; Havana Line. She was later renamed Gibraltar or Gibraltar of Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>The merchant steamship Habana was purchased by the Confederate Government at New Orleans in April 1861; she was converted to a cruiser and placed under the command of Raphael Semmes. Renamed Sumter, she was commissioned in the Confederate Navy on 3 June 1861 and broke through the Federal blockade of the Mississippi River mouth late in that month.<\/p>\n<p>Read much more about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CSS_Sumter\" rel=\"nofollow\">CSS Sumter<\/a>. (Wikipedia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sumter running the blockade of Pass \u00e0 l&#8217;Outre, by the enemy&#8217;s Ship Brooklyn, on the 30th June, 1861 (Library of Congress) 1869 Color lithograph by Kelly, Piet &amp; Co., Baltimore CSS Sumter, a 473-ton bark-rigged screw steam cruiser, was built as the merchant steamship Habana at Philadelphia in 1859 for McConnell&#8217;s New Orleans &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-library-of-congress-prints-and-photographs"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}