Civil War Confederate Ships G through L

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Introduction
The information below comes from Series II, Volume 1 of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies. Digital copy at Archive.org.

Ship names beginning with G

 * Gaines. Class: Side-wheel steamer; wood. Sunk in battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864. Her crew all told were about 120. Similiar in construction to the Selma. For more information, see page 253


 * General Beauregard. Class: Steamer. Blown up and sunk in the Mississippi River, off Memphis, Tenn., June6, 1862. For more information, see page 253


 * General Bragg. Class: Steamer; Mississippi River Defense Fleet. Captured by Federal forces Memphis, Tenn., June 6, 1862. For more information, see page 253


 * General Earl van Dorn. Class: Steamer; Mississippi River Defense Fleet. Burned by Confederates in Yazoo River. For more information, see page 253


 * General M. Jeff Thompson. Class: Steamer; Mississippi River Defense Fleet. Sunk off Memphis, Tenn., June 6, 1862. For more information, see page 253


 * General Polk. Purchased in 1861. Class: Steamer; man-of-war. Destroyed by her officers in Yazoo River, June 26, 1862. For more information, see page 253 
 * General Quitman. Class: Louisiana gunboat. Destroyed, April 24, 1862, below New Orleans, La. For more information, see page 254


 * General Sterling Price. Class: Steamer; Mississippi River Defense Fleet. Sunk off Memphis, Tenn., June 6, 1862, and raised by the Federals. For more information, see page 254
 * General Sumter. Class: Steamer; Mississippi River Defense Fleet. Captured at Memphis, Tenn., June 6, 1862.


 * George Page. Seized at Alexandria in 1861. Class: Side-wheel river steamer. Burned at Qauntico, Va. Name changed to City of Richmond. For more information, see page 254


 * Cruiser Georgia. Pruchased on the Clyde at Dumbarton, March, 1863. Class: Screw steamer; iron. Sold at Liverpool to a British merchant, June 1, 1864. Originally, she bore the name of Japan. She was built in 1862. Said to be very fast. For more information, see page 254