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erals October i, 1861 and set on fire by Confederates at the battle of Elizabeth City, N. C, February 10, 1862.

FIRE FLY Wooden side-wheel river steamer. Used for a while at Savannah as a tender and then permitted to go to wreck.

FLORIDA Originally the merchant steamer Oreto. Bought in 1862 at Liverpool by the Confederates and mounted with five guns. She was boarded by the United States Ship Wachusett and captured in the harbor of Bahai, Brazil, October 7, 1864, while her captain and crew were ashore on liberty.

FORREST Wooden tug-boat formerly the Edwards, bought at Norfolk in 1861 and mounted with two guns. She was disabled in battle at Roanoke Island. February 7, 1862, and was burned on the ways at Elizabeth City by the Confederates, February loth.

P'REDERICKSBURG Iron-clad, four guns. Built at Richmond, 1863, and burned by the Confederates at the evacuation of that city, April, 1865.

GAINES Side-wheel merchant steamer, mounted six guns. Sunk in battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864.

GERMANTOWN Sailing sloop of war, twenty-two guns. Seized by Confederates at Gosport Navy Yard, 1861, and burned at the evacuation of Norfolk.

GEORGIA Iron-clad floating battery at Savannah. Destroyed by the Confederates at the fall of that city, in December, 1864.

GEORGIA Cruiser, originally the merchant steamer Japan. Bought at Dumbarton in April, 1863, and mounted five guns. Sold at Liverpool by the Confederate Government in 1864.

GEORGE PAGE Side-wheel river steamer, seized at Alexandria in 1 86 1 and armed with two guns. Her name was afterwards changed to the Richmond. She was burned by the Confederates at Quantico in 1862.

HARRIET LANE Captured from the Federals at Galveston, Jan- uary i, 1863. Mounted eight guns. Her name was changed to the Lavina and she was converted into a blockade runner. She was in Havana harbor at the close of the war.

HAMPTON Wooden gun-boat, two guns. Built at Norfolk, 1862.