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| | USS Chenango Boiler Explosion, April 15, 1864. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | On the afternoon of Friday, April 15, 1864, the side-wheeled steamer, USS Chenango, leaving the Navy Yard at New York, had steamed out into the harbor, on her way to Hampton Roads, Virginia. |
 | | She was to have anchored at the buoy at Sandy Hook, until the next morning, Saturday, April 16, to await the double turreted monitor, USS Onondaga, which was to accompany her south to her destination. |
 | | Log - Deck Log of the USS Chenango; original held at the National Archives, Washington, D.C.; all accounts referenced here are from the entry of April 15, 1864. |
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