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John Newland Maffitt, 22 Feb 1819 - 15 May 1886. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

  • Object number: NPG.80.180
  • Exhibition Label: Born at sea, Atlantic Ocean, John Newland Maffitt was one of the Confederacy’s most successful commerce raiders and blockade runners. Born at sea in 1819, while his mother journeyed from Ireland to the United States to join her husband, Maffitt lived most of his life aboard sailing vessels; before the Civil War he spent sixteen years with the U.S. Coast Survey, charting the eastern seaboard. In 1861 Maffitt, reared in North Carolina, sided with the South, enlisting in the Confederate navy. He is mainly remembered as the commander of the steam cruiser CSS Florida. With Maffitt at the helm, the Florida proved to be a formidable raider of enemy vessels, commandeering their cargoes of goods and bullion, badly needed by the Confederacy. At war’s end, Maffitt sailed to England rather than surrender his command. He returned two years later to the vicinity of Wilmington, North Carolina, where he purchased a farm.
Date circa 1865
date QS:P,+1865-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source http://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.80.180
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