[1] The Department of the Navy was established by an act of the Provisional Confederate Congress in Montgomery, Alabama which passed into law on February 21, 1861.

On May 9, 1862, Mallory issued orders to James D. Bulloch instructing him to proceed to London, England to act as the Confederacy's agent in securing six new vessels, armaments, and supplies for the nascent Confederate Navy.

The Submarine Battery Service primarily utilized electrically-detonated torpedoes to protect the South's waterways.

[7] As originally legislated the Marine Corps was to be a battalion-sized force of six companies and a headquarters element led by a major.

[7] The Marine Corps was later expanded into a regiment following an act of the Provisional Congress on May 20, 1861; this was spurred on by the secession of Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.