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The Navy of the Confederate States (CSN) was the Navy of the Confederate States of America. After the Confederacy established itself in 1861, the elected president, Jefferson Davis appointed Stephen Mallory as his Secretary of the Confederate Navy. At the time the South had no ships capable of challenging the United States Navy's frigates. It did not have the shipbuilding capability or the raw materials necessary to build a navy.[1] While they had limited resources, and did not have the firepower of the Union Navy, they developed a number of technologies.[2] The Confederates developed naval mines, ironclad techniques and managed to sink a Union warship with a working submarine.
- ↑ "The Confederate Naval Buildup; Could More Have Been Accomplished?". AmericanCivilWar.com. Retrieved November 23, 2016.
- ↑ James M. McPherson, War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), pp. 1–2