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	Miami
		Miami reached Ship Island 19 March and headed for Pass a l’Outre where she entered the Mississippi to join Commander Porter’s flotilla.
		When the Federal vessels had reached safety, Miami turned to transporting Army troops to positions for launching an attack on the forts by land and continued the task until the forts surrendered to the Navy on the 28th.
		For the remainder of the war Miami operated in the James playing an important role in the naval effort, assisting Grant’s unrelenting pressures on the Confederate capitol which finally forced the gallant Lee to surrender at Appomatox Courthouse, 9 April 1865.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/m10/miami-i.htm (1255 words)

	USS Miami
		The first Miami, a side-wheel, double-ender gunboat was launched by Philadelphia Navy Yard 16 November 1861 sponsored by Miss Ann Ingersoll; and commissioned there 29 January 1862, Lt. Abram Davis Harrell in command.
		It was reported that she "tore a hole clear through to the boiler" and Albermarle's captain stated that his ship plunged 10 feet into the side of the wooden gunboat.
		For the remainder of the war Miami operated in the James playing an important role in the naval effort, assisting Grant's unrelenting pressures on the Confederate capitol which finally forced the gallant Lee to surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, 9 April 1865.
	www.multied.com /NAVY/gunboat/miami.html (1233 words)

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		In August 1861 she carried army dispatches to General Pillow at New Madrid, Mo. In April 1863 she was reported as one of four cotton-clad steamers preparing to attack Union naval forces in the Arkansas River.
		She was taken over in 1861 by General M. Lovell, commanding the New Orleans military district, and converted to a cottonclad ram by installation of double pine bulwarks filled with compressed cotton and one-inch iron plates on each bow.
		By 0300, USS JAMES ADGER had towed CORNUBIA free on the flood tide still intact and she was duly sent to Boston as a prize, along with a bag of watersoaked mail which one of her officers had tried to dispose of in the surf and the three captives.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/csn/c.txt (5342 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1861 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday.hey hey im not getting any info.
		November 7 - American Civil War: Battle of Belmont - In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
		November 8 - American Civil War: The "Trent Affair" - The USS San Jacinto stops the United Kingdom mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, James Mason and John Slidell, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/1861.html (1550 words)

	USS Miami SSN 755 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		USS Miami (SSN 755) is the third ship of the United States Navy named for the city of Miami, Fla.
		The first USS Miami, a side-wheel, double-ended gunboat was launched by Philadelphia Navy Yard, Nov. 16, 1861, and commissioned Jan. 29, 1862.
		USS Miami (CL 89) was decommissioned in 1947.
	www.csg2.navy.mil /Miami/miami.htm (164 words)

	USN Ships--USS Southfield (1861-1864)
		USS Southfield, a 750-ton side-wheel steam gunboat, was built in 1857 at Brooklyn, New York, as a civilian ferryboat.
		Purchased by the Navy and converted to a gunboat, she was commissioned in December 1861.
		She was off Plymouth on 19 April, in company with USS Miami, when the new Confederate ironclad ram Albemarle attacked.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-s/southfld.htm (286 words)

	Archaeology - Office of Cultural & Historical Programs
		USS Columbine is believed to have originally been the A.H. Schultz, which was built in New York in 1850 as a sidewheel tug for use in New York Harbor.
		The destruction of USS Columbine was one of the few instances in which a Union warship was destroyed by land-based forces during the Civil War in Florida.
		USS Massachusetts (BB-2), was built in Philadelphia in 1891, as one of three of Indiana-class battleships.
	dhr.dos.state.fl.us /archaeology/projects/shipwrecks/legacy/shipwreck.cfm (963 words)

	USS Ward DD-139 / APD-16 Ship's History
		Originally the USS Chew (Seen HERE moored with the WARD in July of that year) was slated for duty but a mechanical difficulty forced her to return to base and the WARD was sent out in her place.
		The Antares was steaming in from Palmyra to meet the tug USS Keosanqua to transfer her tow to her.
		On January 2 she and the USS Allen attacked a contact and a submarine was seen to surface but no mention of a kill exists in Naval records.
	www.specwarnet.net /USSWard/history.htm (14494 words)

	Florida from A-Z
		Miami Jai Aliai is the oldest jai alai arena in the country.
		The 5th ship was the USS Florida (BB-30) a battleship commissioned 1911 and scrapped in 1932.
		The Miami Metro Zoo is a cageless zoo and the only zoo in the country in a subtropical climate.
	www.geocities.com /statesaz/Florida.html (4073 words)

	The Tidewater Maritime Living History Association
		On 19 April 1864, Miami, Tacony and Wyalusing engaged the Confederate ironclad Albemarle, a battle that resulted in the death of Miami's Commanding Officer, LCDR Charles W. Flusser.
		USS Dawn was a 399-ton screw steam gunboat, built in 1857 at New York for commercial use.
		She was chartered by the Navy in April 1861 and commissioned for Civil War duty as USS Dawn.
	tmlha.exis.net (2496 words)

	MaritimeDigital Archive Encyclopedia - Home > 003a Auxiliary vessels > Transport vessels - Troop transport ships > ...
		Bombshell was recaptured in Albemarle Sound by USS Mattabesett and USS Sassacus on May 5, 1864 and sent to New York.
		CSS Cotton Plant, sometimes referred to as Cotton Planter, was built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1860 and reportedly carried troops in the Pamlico River as early as September 1861.
		She sailed with CSS Albemarle when that ironclad ram attacked Union forces at Plymouth, North Carolina, sank USS Southfield and drove off USS Miami, USS Ceres and USS Whitehead on April 18-19, 1864.
	www.ibiblio.org /maritime/media/index.php?cat=952 (383 words)

	Civil war ship models
		USS Kearsarge was considered one of the three most important ships in the United States Navy.
		Although USS Tecumseh was involved in a number of notable operations along the James River, its most famous battle would be its last--the Battle of Mobile Bay in which she led the van of monitors, which included USS Manhattan, USS Winnebago, and USS Chickasaw...
		She entered dock on 30 May 1861 and left dock and attacked the Federal squadron in Hampton Roads on 8 March 1862, engaged the MONITOR on 9 March 1862.
	www.modelshipmaster.com /products/civil_war/index.htm (1554 words)

	Posts from the History Category at Blogging Ohio
		It was built in 1861 and served on western rivers throughout the course of the Civil War.
		In 1921, the third USS Cincinnati was launched.
		The USS Toledo is a Los Angeles Class attack sub.
	www.bloggingohio.com /category/history (4343 words)

	Prologue - Prologue: Selected Articles
		Since he was an officer on board the Miami, it was possible that there might be useful information about Flusser and his activities prior to his death.
		When we checked the various deck logs from the Miami, we determined that he was killed during an engagement with the Confederate ironclad Albemarle.
		According to Murphy, he was "infected in the sickbay (?) of the USS Vermont." The record further states, however, that the patient's "fight ear is much swollen and patient states that he was struck with a club.
	www.archives.gov /publications/prologue/1995/summer/navy-records-1861-1924.html (2404 words)

	KeysDAN - Florida
		Florida seceded from the Union on January 10, 1861 at the outbreak of the Civil War and became one of the founding members of the Confederate States of America ten days later.
		Florida's large and diverse Hispanic community consists particularly of Cubans in Miami and Tampa; large Puerto Rican populations are present in Tampa and Orlando; and Central American migrant workers are largely present in inland West-Central and South Florida.
		Miami has an automated guideway people-mover system as well as a 22-mile metro system, and most cities have bus service.
	www.keysdan.com /Florida.htm (4144 words)

	Admiralty law Information
		Banks which loan money to purchase ships, vendors who supply ships with necessaries like fuel and stores, seamen who are due wages, and many others have a lien against the ship to guarantee payment.
		Because sunken treasure has generally been lost for hundreds of years, while the original owner (or insurer, if the vessel was insured) continues to have an interest in it, the salvor or finder will generally get the majority of the value of the property.
		Johns River, and the USS Monitor in Chesapeake Bay), and sunken merchant ships (the SS Central America off of Cape Hatteras) have all been the subject of treasure salvage awards.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Admiralty_law (2403 words)

	Printer Friendly Version--Florida Shipwrecks: 300 Years of Maritime History: A National Register of Historic Places ...
		Commissioned in 1896, the Massachusetts, along with the USS Indiana and the USS Oregon, were members of the “Indiana” class of warships and the first ships constructed for the new “Steel” Navy.
		The USS Alligator, a U.S. Navy schooner constructed in 1820 at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts, is an excellent example of an American warship from this period.
		All that is known is that the grounding and loss occurred sometime between 1857, the first date that the firebricks found on the wreck were manufactured, and 1861, the last date that the yellow construction bricks were produced for the Federal government.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/flshipwrecks/text.htm (10310 words)

	Ironclad
		When war between the States broke out in April 1861, Stephen R. Mallory, Secretary of the Confederate Navy, was convinced that the rebel navy could offset the much superior strength of the Union Navy through the construction and employment of "floating batteries" (the ironclad warships).
		In the fall of 1861, Cooke was appointed official liaison between North Carolina contractors and the Confederate Navy Department.
		Over $5.9 million is being used to restore and protect the ironclad USS Cairo on display in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and $10 million has been allocated for a facility to house the ironclad CSS Jackson on display in Columbus, Georgia.
	www.usvetdsp.com /ironclad.htm (4964 words)

	Florida Online
		On January 10, 1861, the delegates voted 62 to 7 to secede.
		Flagler's railway to the settlement, now called Miami, opened in 1896, and the city was incorporated that same year.
		The extension of the Florida East Coast Railway from Miami to Key West was completed in 1912.
	www.glencoe.com /sites/florida/teacher/worldlang/fl_online/growth_develop.html (2280 words)

	blackinblue
		By September 1861, the volume of requests from commanders of naval vessels regarding authorization to enlist fugitive slaves reached such proportions that Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, a Connecticut native of antislavery bent, felt obliged to act.
		From the spring of 1861 through the fall of 1864, the percentage of fl men increased steadily from a starting point of less than 5 percent to a peak of 23 percent.
		On USS Minnesota, for instance, when the officers determined that a number of the "plantation darkies" on board could "sing and dance," "[al]most every night their services were brought into requisition and the roars of laughter that greeted their comical efforts could be heard" from one end of the ship to the other.
	www.navyandmarine.org /ondeck/1862blackinblue.htm (9666 words)

	Roster of the U.S.S. Whitehead
		Assigned to the USS Crocus in 1864, and to the USS Madawaska on trials at New York.
		Assigned to the USS Whitehead in 1864, and to the USS Agawam on the North Atlantic Squadron in 1867.
		Assigned to the USS Whitehead in 1864, to the USS Shamokin on the South Atlantic Squadron in 1867, and to the USS Fortune on the North Atlantic Squadron in 1873.
	home.att.net /~cwppds/whitehead.htm (1065 words)

	navychronology1864a
		Lancaster at Acapulco, Mexico: "Such is the present state of affairs at Acapulco that it is believed by both native and foreign populations that the presence of man-of-war alone prevented an attempt to sack and destroy the town by the Indians in the interior, encouraged by the governor, General Alvarez.
		The "David" was sighted some 50 yards to port and a heavy volley of musket fire directed at her, but Tomb held his small craft on course.
		By 24 March Flusser reported that intelligence, "which would seem reliable," indicated that the ironclad ram was at Hamilton and that the torpedoes placed by the Confederates in the Roanoke River below Williamston were being removed to permit her passage downstream.
	www.usnlp.org /navychronology/1864a.html (10798 words)

	This date in Michigan history archive
		March 13, 1861 John Robertson of Detroit prepares to assume office as Michigan's adjutant general.
		August 22, 1861 The Seventh Michigan Infantry is mustered.
		September 11, 1982 The USS Michigan is launched.
	www.michiganhistorymagazine.com /date/archive.html (3373 words)

	The U.S. Coast Guard and the Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Now, on January 9, 1861, as skipper of the Federal-chartered merchantman Star of the West, he was attempting to bring supplies and reinforcements to the besieged Union garrison at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.
		In late August 1861, the cutter participated in the first joint amphibious operation of the war.
		Revenue Cutter Miami supporting the landing of Union troops on the beach at Ocean View, Virginia for the invasion of Norfolk on 10 May 1862.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/Civil_War_Strobridge.html (2822 words)

	American Civil War Union and Confederate Ships and Battles
		It depicts thirteen merchant steamships acquired by the U.S. Navy between April and August 1861 and subsequently converted into warships, plus the steamer Nashville (far left), which became a Confederate cruiser.
		But her career came to an end in June of 1864 when she was sunk by the USS Kearsarge off the coast of Northern France, where the Alabama had gone for repairs.RAISE THE ALABAMA!
		Ringle is among the first to examine the many aspects of sailors' lives during the American Civil War.
	www.americancivilwar.com /tcwn/civil_war/Navy_Ships (537 words)

	TarHeelDaily.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When it was apparent the 2002 Carolina football campaign was not heading in the direction people had hoped for, they immediately looked for somebody to blame and Durant was the winner.
		The Florence, South Carolina native had a bad game against Miami (Ohio) and did throw a couple inopportune interceptions this season (see first half of Texas game), but to blame the Heels woes on him is absolutely idiotic.
		I’m not saying Durant, Chapman, Mooring and Waddell wouldn’t have been injured or the linebackers and defensive line would have played better football, but the USS Tarheelia lost some steam on that play.
	www.tarheeldaily.com /feature.html?aid=1861&sid=1863 (864 words)

	Historical Documents--CSS Virginia Home Page
		Letter to Catesby ap Roger Jones, September 20, 1861, referring to the armament of the Merrimack and arrival of powder.
		Letter to Commander Tucker, December 4, 1861, regarding the armament of the Patrick Henry, Merrimack, and Jamestown.
		Report, April 20, 1861, regarding the attempt to blow up the dry dock at Norfolk.
	members.aol.com /vacsn4/original (6781 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.
		Although they were constantly in danger of being discovered by the lights of the Fort, the bold sailors worked all night to deactivate and sink Confederate torpedoes in the channel preparatory to Farragut's dash into Mobile Bay.
	www.usnlp.org /navychronology/1864b.html (12468 words)

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		Miami University seven years later, listing Piqua, Ohio, as his hometown.
		In 1845, Rowan was assigned to the USS Cyane at Norfolk, Va. Sea duty
		the USS New Ironsides exemplified advances in naval tactics during the war.
	www.lanepl.org /Blount/JBCOLS/documents/239DA8B1EBE20CF2BEBAEEE1BCEFC551D223CC8C.html (2367 words)

	Naval War Discussion
		at [Jun 29 20:57:59]: M do you have any knowledge of the USS Americus(America) which sank off the coast of Florida March 22, 1864 (navyman that is the date I couldn't remember).
		The first was May 15 1862, with the USS Monitor, Galena, Aroostook, Port Royal and Naugatuck.
		After the Federal attack on Charleston the USS New Ironsides was anchored over a "torpedo" with 2,000 lb of powder.
	www.civilwarhome.com /navaldiscussion.htm (3478 words)

	USS San Jacinto CG-56 - "Victory is Certain" First USS San Jacinto (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first USS San Jacinto was an early screw frigate in the United States Navy during the mid 1800s.
		San Jacinto was decommissioned on 30 November 1861 for overhaul at the Boston Navy Yard and was prepared for service as flagship of the Gulf Blockading Squadron.
		On 5 May, President Abraham Lincoln arrived in Hampton Roads on board steamer, Miami, to take personal charge of the stalled Peninsular Campaign; and, for the next five days, acted as Commander in Chief in the field.
	www.sanjacinto.navy.mil /first.htm (3203 words)

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