CDV OF CONFEDERATE COMMODORE GEORGE N. HOLLINS

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Waist up image shows Hollins in uniform sporting muttonchops and mustache. He wears a double-breasted coat with brush epaulettes.

Image is clear and mostly clean with only light surface dirt.

Reverse is blank but at top is a period pencil inscription that reads “COM. HOLLINS.”

Commodore George Nichols Hollins was born in Baltimore, September 20, 1799. He entered the navy of the United States as a midshipman in 1814 and served on the USS Erie in her attempt to break the British blockade of Chesapeake Bay. He was subsequently transferred to the USS President where he served under Stephen Decatur until captured at Bermuda. He was held as a prisoner of war until peace was established.

In the Algerian war of 1815 he served under Decatur with such merit as to be presented a sword in recognition of his gallantry. Subsequently he was on duty upon the ships Guerriere, Columbus, Franklin, and Washington, and commanded an East India merchantman for a time. He was promoted lieutenant in 1828, commander in 1841, and captain U. S. N. in 1855. In the latter year he bombarded Graytown, Mosquito Coast in the interests of American residents.

In 1861 Captain Hollins resigned his commission, but the War Department refused to accept the resignation and ordered his arrest. Hollins escaped and in March, 1861 was at Montgomery, then the Confederate capital, where he met Raphael Semmes, Josiah Tattnall, Thomas Brent, and many other naval officers to consult with a committee of the Confederate Congress on the means of providing a navy for the new government.

Hollins became a commander in the Confederate States Navy. He quickly attracted attention by his clever capture, on June 29, 1861, of the steamer St. Nicholas in the Potomac River. On July 10th the naval defenses of the James River were placed under his command, and on July 31st he was put in charge of the naval station at New Orleans, where he defeated the Federal blockading squadron the following October.

Appointed flag officer in December 1861 he took a fleet up the Mississippi river to assist in the defense of the works at Columbus, Kentucky. In April, 1862, he was called back to New Orleans by the appearance of the enemy in force. He led a small squadron against Union forces at Memphis but was defeated. He returned to New Orleans to help defend that city but disagreements with the Confederate Secretary of the Navy caused Hollins recall to Richmond where he remained for the rest of the war serving on different committees.

After the war he resided at Baltimore, and died there January 18, 1878.  [AD]

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