Page 584 APPENDIX II ANNEX I PRIVATEERS COMMISSIONED BY THE CONFEDERATE STATES GOVERNMENT In answer to President Lincoln's de facto declaration of war and call-up of militia, Jefferson Davis issued a proclamation on 17 April 1861 inviting, "all those who may desire, by service in private-armed vessels on the high seas, to aid this Government in resisting so wanton and wicked an aggression, to make application for commissions or letters of marque and reprisal to be issued under the seal of these Confederate States." Confederate Congressional authorization was provided in an Act signed on 6 May 1861 which enabled the granting of letters of marque. Subsequent regulations extended inviting terms with but few restrictions to persons interested in the lucrative if hazardous pursuit. These actions, calculated in part to arouse fears among northern mercantile interests, achieved the desired objective. Further, they immediately prompted numerous requests for commissions from aspirants who, like buccaneers of the past, served the cause with a mixture of patriotic zeal and pecuniary interest. Listed below are those ships which extant records indicate to have received letters of marque and reprisal between 1861 and 1864, none having been issued in the last few months of the war. Many of these ships had varied service during the war years, and some achieved greater fame as blockade runners, or Confederate States Navy ships. Only those in the latter group marked with a ‘+’ have histories in the body of the Appendix because of an established direct military association. Ships marked with an asterisk were found to have received commissions but no recorded service as privateers, having failed in fitting out, been taken into other employ, or fallen captive. Statistics, port of fitting out, and year of commission are indicated when available. +* A. C. GUNNISON (StTug: t. 54; l. 70'; b. 15'; dph. 7'; Mobile; 1861) + BEAUREGARD, ex-PRISCELLA C. FERGUSON, (Sch: t. 101; s. 7 k.; a. 1 24- pdr.; Charleston; 1861) * BONITA (Str: t. 1,110; a. 8 guns; 1862) + BOSTON (Str: dr. 9'; a. 5 guns; Mobile, 1963) * CHARLOTTE CLARK (Str: t. 1,100; dr. 12'; a. 3 guns; 1863) +* CHESAPEAKE (Sch: t. 60; 4 guns; 1863) + DIXIE (Sch: t. 110; a. 3 guns; Charleston; 1861) * DOVE (Str: t. 1,170; a. 8 guns; 1862) F. S. BARTOW (Sch: t. 74; a. 1 24-pdr., 1 6-pdr.) +* GALLATIN (Sch: t. 150; a. 2 12-pdr.; 1861) * GENERAL N. S. RENEAU (Str: 1861) * GIBRALTAR (Sch: t. 60, a. 2 guns; Mobile; 1864) GORDON (SwStr: t. 518; l. 175'; dr. 7'; s. 16 k.; a. 3 guns; 1861) * GOVERNOR A. MOUTON (Str: t. 125, a. 1 9-pdr., 1 6-pdr.; New Orleans; 1861 ) +* HALLIE JACKSON (Brig: 1861) ISABELLA (ScStr: t. 801; a. 8 guns; New Orleans; 1861) + J. C. CALHOUN (CALHOUN) (SwStr: t. 508, New Orleans; 1861) J. M. CHAPMAN (Sch: t. 90) J. O. NIXON (Sch: t. 95, a. 1 18-pdr., 2 6-pdr., New Orleans; 1861) + JEFFERSON DAVIS, ex-ECHO, ex-PUTNAM, (Brig: t. 187, dr. 10'6"; a. 2 32-pdr., 2 24-pdr., 1 18-pdr.; Charleston; 1861) +* JOSEPH LANDIS (Str: t. 400; 1861) * JOSEPHINE (Sch: 1861) * LAMAR (Sch: 1861) LORTON (Sch: t. 95; a. 1 pivot gun; Baltimore; 1861) + MANASSAS (StRam: t. 387; l. 143'; b. 33'; dph. 17'; Algiers, La.; 1861) Page 585 MARINER (ScStr: t. 135; a. 2 12-pdr.; Wilmington, N. C.; 1861) * MATILDA (Bark: t. 400; a. 6 guns; New Orleans; 1861) * MOCKING BIRD (Str: t. 1,290; a. 8 guns; New Orleans; 1862) * MONTICELLO (IrcStr; t. 460; 1861) + MUSIC (SwStr: t. 273; l. 172'; b. 29'; dph. 6'; a. 2 6-pdr.; New Orleans 1861) * ONWARD (Sch: t. 70; a. 1 32-pdr.; 1861) +* PAUL JONES (Sch: t. 160; a. 2 guns; 1864) * PELICAN (Str: t. 1,479; a. 10 guns; 1862) +* PETREL, ex-WILLIAM AIKEN, ex-ECLIPSE, (Sch: t. 82; a. 2 guns; Charleston; 1861) * PHENIX (Str: t. 1,644; l. 245'; b. 34'; dph. 19'; a. 7 guns; Wilmington, Del.; 1861) +* PIONEER (SS: l. 30'; 1861) +* PIONEER II (SS: l. 36'; b. 3'; dph. 4'; s. 2.5 k.; 1863) + RATTLESNAKE ex-THOMAS WRAGG, blockade runner; ex-CSS NASHVILLE (SwStr: t. 1,221; l. 215' 6"; b. 34' 6"; dph. 21' 9"; a. 2 12-pdr., 1862) * RESCUE (Sch: t. 120; l. 150') SALLIE (Sch: t. 170 a. 1 gun; Charleston; 1861) SAVANNAH (Sch: t. 53; l. 56'; a. 1 pivot gun; Charleston; 1861) SEALINE (Brig: t. 179; a. 1 gun; Baltimore; 1861) * STEPHEN R. MALLORY, ex-DON Jose, (Sch: t. 74; 1864) * STONEWALL JACKSON (Sch: 1864) +* TEXAS (SwStr: t. 800; a. 8 guns; 1863) * TRITON (Sch: t. 30; a. 1 6-pdr.; 1861) + V. H. IVY (SwStr: t. 454; l. 191'; b. 28'; a. 1 15-pdr.; New Orleans; 1861) +* WILLIAM H. WEBB, (WEBB), (SwStr: t. 656; l. 195'; b. 31' 6"; dr. 9' 6"; 1861) YORK (Sch: t. 68; a. 18-pdr.; Norfolk; 1861)