CSS Nashville

CSS Nashville

Two ships in the Confederate Navy were named CSS "Nashville" in honor of the capital of Tennessee.

* CSS "Nashville" (1861) was a steamer, seized in 1861. She was a blockade runner, renamed "Thomas L. Wragg" and later commissioned as the privateer "Rattlesnake" and destroyed in 1863.
* CSS "Nashville" (1864) was a large side-wheel steam ironclad built in 1863.


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