- Navy:
- Louisiana Provisional Navy, 1862
- Name:
- Louisiana Provisional Navy
- Career:
In March 1862 the state of Louisiana formed a navy to support the CSN in the defence of the river Mississippi. It consisted of two steamers armed as gunboats (General Quitman, Governor Moore), which were sunk with most of the confederate ships at the Battle of New Orleans (24 April, 1862).