Service in The Confederate Navy
Hendrick Hudson was built as Florida in 1859 at Greenpoint, New York. She was taken into the Confederate States Navy in 1862 as CSS Florida.
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Famous quotes containing the words service, confederate and/or navy:
“We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers.”
—Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Wellington (1769–1852)
“Figure a man’s only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.”
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