What is Confederate States Navy?
[[File:CS Navy Department Seal.svg |thumb|right|250px|{{Center|Seal of the Confederate States of America Navy}}]] The '''Navy of the Confederate States''' ('''CSN''') was the [[Navy]] of the [[Confederate States of America]]. After the Confederacy established itself in 1861, the elected [[president]], [[Jefferson Davis]] appointed Stephen Mallory as his Secretary of the Confederate Navy. At the time the [[Southern United States|South]] had no [[ship]]s capable of challenging the [[United States Navy]]'s [[frigate]]s. It did not have the [[shipbuilding]] capability or the [[raw material]]s necessary to build a navy.<ref name=confedbuildACW>{{cite web |url=http://www.americancivilwar.com/tcwn/confederate_navy/confederate_navy_buildup.html |title=The Confederate Naval Buildup; Could More Have Been Accomplished? |publisher=AmericanCivilWar.com |access-date=November 23, 2016}}</ref> While they had limited resources, and did not have the [[firepower]] of the Union Navy, they developed a number of [[Technology|technologies]].<ref>James M. McPherson, ''War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), pp. 1–2</ref> The Confederates developed [[naval mine]]s, [[Ironclad warship|ironclad]] [[wikt:technique|technique]]s and managed to sink a Union [[warship]] with a working [[submarine]]. == History == The [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], led by [[Abraham Lincoln]], won the 1860 [[President of the United States|presidential]] election. Southerners were [[outrage]]d by the election of Lincoln, who opposed slavery in [[territory|territories]] and new states.{{efn|More than this, Lincoln and the new Republican-controlled Congress opposed [[Slave Power]].<ref name=alsLI>{{cite web |url=http://www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/abraham-lincoln-in-depth/abraham-lincoln-and-slavery/ |title=Abraham Lincoln and Slavery |publisher=The Lehrman Institute |access-date=November 24, 2016}}</ref> Up to this time in American History, the southern