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	USS Arizona (1858) - Wikipedia
		The first USS Arizona was an iron hulled side-wheel steamer in the United States Navy.
		She was renamed Caroline and served as a blockade runner for the Confederate States of America until Union forces recaptured her in October 1862.
		In any case on October 28, 1862, the side-wheeler was operating under a "...provisional register of the English steamer Caroline..." as she steamed from Havana with a cargo of munitions to be delivered to Mobile.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Arizona_(1858) (1585 words)

	USS Lackawanna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lackawanna took her first prize, Neptune, 14 June after a long chase in which the 200-ton Glasgow ship had jettisoned her cargo trying to escape.
		William Reynolds in command, Lackawanna sailed for the South Atlantic 4 August, transited the Straits of Magellan 9 November, and arrived Honolulu 9 February 1867.
		She operated in the Pacific, primarily in the Hawaiian islands and along the coast of California and Mexico until she arrived at Mare Island for decommissioning 10 February 1871.
	www.datasync.com /~bouchard/civilwar/lackawanna.htm (561 words)

	USS Arizona - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The first two ships predate both the territory and state of Arizona, but within the region of northern Mexico known as la Pimería Alta ("the Upper Pima Country") was a district called variously "Arizonac," "Arissona," or "Arizona." La Pimería Alta was divided into the Mexican state of Sonora and the American territory-cum-state of Arizona.
		The second USS Arizona was a 3850-ton steam frigate launched in October 1865 as USS Neshamny[?].
		On March 4, 1913, Congress authorized the construction of the USS Arizona (BB-39), a Pennsylvania-class battleship.
	www.encyclopedia.intec.edu /us/USS_Arizona.html (1667 words)

	California Naval History: The Pacific Squadron of 1861-1866
		The force in the Pacific remained unchanged in 1862 with the exception that the WYOMING was detached and sent to the East Indies and Commodore J. Montgomery was succeeded by Rear Admiral Charles E. Bell.
		The USS SHUBRICK was then on duty on the northern coast and came to the attention of the public on account of the difficulty over the customhouse at Port Townsend, Washington territory.
		The USS CYANE was the oldest of the squadron of the 1860's and although she was put out of commission after thirty-four years service, she was not sold until she had reached the half century mark.
	www.militarymuseum.org /PacSqdn.html (5746 words)

	Maine Medal of Honor Recipients
		Citation: Bibber served on board the USS Agawam, as one of a volunteer crew of a powder boat which was exploded near Fort Fisher 23 Dec 1864.
		Citation: On board the USS Agawam, as one of a volunteer crew of a powder boat which was exploded near Fort Fisher, 23 Dec 1864.
		Citation: On board the USS Rhode Island which was engaged in rescuing men from the stricken Monitor in Mobile Bay¹; (sic), on Dec 30, 1862.
	www.datasync.com /~bouchard/civilwar/MaineMOH.html (9641 words)

	A Chronological History
		January 31, 1862 - By the time General U. Grant, in command of the Federal Army of the West, was prepared to advance up the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers in 1862, seven river gunboats were available to participate in the campaign, and a number of others were in the process of construction at St. Louis.
		July 17-18, 1862 - Twenty-eight U.S. Marines and sailors from the USS Grey Cloud, under 1/Lt. George Collier captured or destroyed a steamer and 2 schooners rumored to be loaded with cotton, and destroyed telegraphic communications between Pascagoula and Mobile.
		The U.S. Marines on the USS Lackawanna were able to furnish substantial protection to their ship during its fight with the Tennessee by effective delivery of small-arms fire through the gun ports of the enemy vessel.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Plains/4198/history.htm (5791 words)

	PA Civil War Soldiers - Unknown Counties Medal of Honor Recipients - Free Pennsylvania Genealogy
		Aboard USS New Ironsides at Fort Fisher, 24 and 25 December 1864 and 13, 14, and 15 January 1865.
		Aboard USS New Ironsides at Fort Fisher, 24 and 24 December, 1864 and 13, 14 and 15 January, 1865.
		During the engagement between the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Merrimack, Williams gallantly served throughout the engagement as quartermaster, piloting the Monitor throughout the battle in which the Merrimack, after being damaged, retired from the scene of the battle.
	www.pacivilwar.com /medalofhonor/unknowncounties.html (3751 words)

	New Jersey Medal of Honor Winners
		When a shell from the shore penetrated the side and passed through the magazine, exploding outside the screen on the berth deck, several powder division protecting bulkheads were torn to pieces and the forward part of the berth deck set on fire.
		Citation: As corporal of the guard on board the USS Wabash during the assault on Fort Fisher, on 15 Jan 1865.
		Citation: Serving as quartermaster on board the USS Lackawanna during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the rebel ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 Aug 1864.
	www.philkearnycwrt.org /moh.html (1665 words)

	Battle of Mobile Bay Online Research :: Information about Battle of Mobile Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Battle of Mobile Bay was a Naval battle fought on August 5, 1864, during the American Civil War.
		The Union fleet suffered the first major loss when the USS Tecumseh (1863) was critically damaged by an exploding torpedo after it wandered into the field.
		USS Tecumseh (1863) sunk by Torpedo (iron-hulled, single-turret monitor)
	www.carolinamaps.net /search/Battle_of_Mobile_Bay.html (310 words)

	PA Civil War Soldiers - Philadelphia County Medal of Honor Recipients - Free Pennsylvania Genealogy
		Served on board the U.S.S. Richmond in the action at Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864, where he was recommended for coolness and good conduct as a gun captain during that engagement which resulted in the capture of the rebel ram Tennessee and in the destruction of Fort Morgan.
		Despite damage to his ship and the loss of several men on board as enemy fire raked her decks, Jones fought his gun with skill and courage throughout the prolonged battle which resulted in the surrender of the rebel ram Tennessee and in the damaging and destruction of batteries at Fort Morgan.
		Served on board the U.S.S. Rhode Island which was engaged in saving the lives of the officers and crew of the Monitor, 30 December 1862.
	www.pacivilwar.com /medalofhonor/philadelphia.html (3000 words)

	Great Lakes & Seaway Shipping News ARCHIVE
		USS Great Lakes Fleet reported that Myron C. Taylor was delayed in departing from Carrollton because of strong river currents.
		The World War II fleet submarine USS CROAKER was successfully moved from her berth on the Buffalo River to the Lackawanna Canal at Bethlehem Steel Wednesday morning.
		On 15 April 1862, ELISHA C. BLISH (wooden propeller tug, 81', 107 t, built in 1857 at Black River, OH) sank near shore at Algonac, MI when a steam pump was accidentally left in an open position and she flooded.
	www.boatnerd.com /news/archive/4-00.htm (15664 words)

	Usn Veterans Burial Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Buried at Proprietors' Cemetery, Portsmouth, N.H. Francis Briggs, Quartermaster, USS Dale, was born in Dover, Massachusetts, and enlisted July 15, 1861, at Portsmouth, as Seaman.
		John Mills Browne, Surgeon, USS Kearsarge was born in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, and appointed Assistant Surgeon in the navy on March 26, 1853, aged 29.
		Thomas Addison Knowlton, USS Wabash, was born in Rockport, Massachusetts, and died at the age of 102, at Ashland, Massachusetts, on February 14, 1940.
	hub.dataline.net.au /~tfoen/burials.html (16947 words)

	USS Kanawha
		Assigned to the Gulf Blockading Squadron, the new gunboat arrived off Pass a l'Outre, La., 13 February and a week later was ordered to take station o~ Mobile, Ala., where she soon distinguished herself for vigilance.
		Lackawanna and Genessee then headed in to finish the task with their 150-pounders, but before they got in range, the daring tug managed to refloat Alice and escaped with her into Mobile Bay.
		She captured Mary Ellen of Montreal 3 January 1865 as the schooner tried to run into Velasco, Tex. She remained on blockade duty until after the end of the war and was ordered north 27 May. Kanawha decommissioned 5 July and was sold at New York 13 June 1866.
	www.multied.com /NAVY/gunboat/kanawha.html (586 words)

	USN Ships--USS Octorara (1862-1866)
		USS Octorara, a 981-ton "Double-Ender" side-wheel gunboat built at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, was commissioned in February 1862.
		Damaged on 28 June 1862, while attempting to steam upriver past the Confederate fortress at Vicksburg, Octorara was en route to Baltimore, Maryland, for repairs when, on 24 July she captured the blockade runner Tubal Cain.
		Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting the mortar schooner flotilla commanded by David Dixon Porter during the April 1862 attack on the forts below New Orleans.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-o/octorara.htm (568 words)

	Rhode Island Medal of Honor Recipients
		Citation: Was wounded and taken to the rear insensible, but when partially recovered insisted on returning to the battery and resumed command of his piece, so remaining until the close of the battle.
		Citation: As second captain of a gun on board the USS Lackawanna during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, on 5 August 1864.
		Citation: Hawkins served on board the U.S.S. Agawam, as one of a volunteer crew of a powderboat which was exploded near Fort Fisher, 23 December 1864.
	suvcwricamp21.tripod.com /rimoh.html (1646 words)

	Pennsylvania Elks Trivia Page
		Lackawanna County, the last one created in Pennsylvania, was formed on Aug. 13, 1878; it means "river that forks" in Native American language.
		In 1911, the anchor for the USS Arizona was cast at Chester; the 19,585 pound anchor is on permanent display at Pearl Harbor.
		On Dec. 7, 1942, the USS New Jersey was launched at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and the USS Wisconsin and USS Antietam were built there in 1943.
	www.pennsylvaniaelks.homestead.com /files/PaTrivia.htm (8097 words)

	Cypress Hills National Cemetery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Despite the early optimism of both the Union and Confederacy, by summer 1862, it was increasingly evident that the Civil War would be both long and costly.
		On board the USS Brooklyn, Dec. 31, 1864, and April 26, 1865 (Section 2, Grave 5022).
		On board the USS Lackawanna, March 16, 1883 (Section 6, Grave 12616).
	www.cem.va.gov /nchp/cypresshills.htm (1425 words)

	Capt. Confedrate Navy William Henry Fleig last Captain of the Harriet Lane
		Upon the capture of her, he said, the Navy Department was determined to risk everything and he sent the "Lackawanna" there as being the fleetest steamer in the Gulf.
		He, Captain Marchand, was to allow no outside considerations to influence him in the vigorous persecution of this particular duty, and he was on no account to leave his station and give chase to any vessel that was not in all probability the one so coveted.
		The "Lackawanna" arrived off Galveston March 11th and Captain Marchand took charge of the Squadron on the ensuing 15th.
	www.fleig.org /CaptFleig/HarrietLane (2618 words)

	navychronology1864b
		Monticello, Lieutenant Cushing, to "cruise together, and on finding the Florida will make a joint attack on her and capture her.'' The career of Florida, one of the most successful raiders, was nearing an end, but the honor of capturing her was to go neither to Adams nor Cushing.
		Durand concealing himself and his men by day and moving by night, made his way toward the prize steamer only to be discovered and captured by a Confederate patrol.
		Lackawanna rammed into the Confederate ship at full speed but, said Farragut, "the only perceptible effect on the ram was to give her a heavy list." A shot from Manhattan's 15-inch gun, however, made a greater impression on those on board Tennessee.
	www.usnlp.org /navychronology/1864b.html (12468 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Battle of Mobile Bay (8/5/1864) - July 8th, 2003
		USS Brooklyn is leading the outer line of Union warships, immediately followed by USS Hartford.
		The USS Monitor and subsequent, similar warships were armored with iron plate that was supposed to make them hard to sink.
		The USS Topeka (CL-67) was laid down on 21 April 1943 by the Bethlehem Steel Co. yard located at Quincy, Mass.; launched on 19 August 1944; sponsored by Mrs.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/942085/posts (9092 words)

	USN Ships--USS OSSIPEE (1862-1891)
		USS Ossipee, a 1240-ton steam screw sloop built at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, New Hampshire, was commissioned in November 1862.
		This photograph has also been captioned as showing USS Lackawanna, but is actually Ossipee in her 1862-72 configuration.
		Photographed in her configuration of 1884-89, with her 8-inch rifled pivot gun mounted forward of the stack.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-o/ossipee.htm (352 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		JAMES, Isaac - Pvt, Co. A, 23rd (Adams') Ark Inf, CSA; enlisted 26 Feb 1862 in Missouri; buried at Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Shelby Co., TN on 03 May 1862
		JONES, S.B. - Ark, CSA; died 08 Jul 1862; buried at Jefferson Barracks, MO; grave #5025
		JORDAN, Cyprian J. - Pvt, 2nd Ark Mtd Rifles, CSA; captured 08 Mar 1862 at Elkhorn Tavern, AR; died 19 Apr 1862 at Alton, IL
	members.tripod.com /egerdes/acwmj.html (2004 words)

	Timeline New York
		1862 Mar 12, Jane Delano (d.1919), nurse, teacher and founder of the American Red Cross, was born in Montour Falls, New York.
		1862 Jul 24, Martin Van Buren (79), the eighth president of the United States, died in Kinderhook, N.Y. 1863 Jan 4, Roller skates with 4 wheels were patented by James Plimpton of NY.
		On Apr 13, 1862, volunteers led by Sarah J. Evans had paid homage to the graves of Civil War soldiers in the Washington area.
	timelines.ws /states/NEWYORK.HTML (14631 words)

	Civil War Naval Forces Index
		USS Cairo [Cairo class ironclad] [Photos, brief notes] [Photos, history] [Colored illustration: Sinking of the Union Ironclad Gunboat USS Cairo by torpedoes in the Yazoo River; history]
		USS Keokuk [twin-turret monitor] [History, illustrations] [Description, illus.
		USS Queen of the West [side-wheel towboat] [History, illustrations] [Description, illus.
	www.tarleton.edu /~kjones/USNavy.html (1174 words)

	USS Arizona (1858) - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		USS Arizona was an iron hulled side-wheel steamer laid down in 1858 at Harlan and Hollingsworth in Wilmington, Delaware, and completed in 1859.
		She was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the district called variously "Arizonac," "Arissona," or "Arizona" within the region of northern Mexico known as la Pimería Alta ("the Upper Pima Country").
		This article includes information collected from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
	www.free-definition.com /USS-Arizona-(1858).html (1560 words)

	War Of The Pacific [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Perryville - Union forces under General Don Carlos Buell halt the Confederate invasion of Kentucky by defeating troops led by General Braxton Bragg at Perryville, Kentucky.
		[click for more] unsuccessfully attempted to mediate the conflict on board USS Lackawanna corvetteA corvette is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, smaller than a frigate.
		When referring to sailing ships, a corvette is a sloop-of-war.
	www.wikimirror.com /War_of_the_Pacific (5373 words)

	Civil War Participants Born in Australia and New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Thomas Cady, ex Seaman, USS "Pittsburgh" (born Adelaide, Australia, died ?; four in 1870 census)
		Lawrence Snyder, ex Seaman, USS Ram "Avenger" (born Australia, died ?, there is a Lawrence Snyder in the 1890 Veterans Census residing in Wisconsin)
		Robert Spicer, ex Landsman, USS "Sabine" (born in New Zealand, died ?)
	www.users.bigpond.com /bcrompton/Ausborn.htm (2381 words)

	Index
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		Confederate privateer, Cuba was captured January 23, 1862 off South West Pass, Louisiana by Colorado.
		In Greek mythology, Calypso, daughter of Atlas, detained the ship wrecked Ulysses on the isle of Ogygia.
	www.marylandsilver.com /inventory.htm (1058 words)

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