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


 * Floating Battery Georgia. Class: Ironclad floating battery. Destroyed by the Confederates at the fall of Savannah, December, 1864. June 3, 1864, the Georgia's complement was 12 officers and 82 men. For more information, see page 254


 * Germantown. Siezed by Confederates at Gosport Navy Yard, 1861. Class: Sailing sloop of war. Burned at the evacuation of Norfolk. For more information, see page 254


 * Privateer Gibraltar. Fitted out at Mobile, Ala. Commissioned February 5, 1864. Class: Schooner. For more information, see page 254


 * Privateer Governor A. Mouton. Fitted out at New Orleans, La. Commissioned June 10, 1861. Class: Steamer. Captured, May 11, 1862, near Berwick Bay, La. Not armed when captured. For more information, see page 255