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	USS Shenandoah (1862) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shenandoah was built by the Philadelphia Navy Yard and launched on December 8, 1862.
		Shenandoah was part of the naval force before the ports of Osaka and Hiogo which were quietly opened to foreigners on 1 January 1868.
		Shenandoah was recommissioned in the New York Navy Yard on 8 September 1879.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Shenandoah_(1862) (2331 words)

	Shenandoah
		The first Shenandoah-a wooden hull, screw sloop of war built by the Philadelphia Navy Yard-was launched on 8 December 1862; sponsored by Miss Selina Pascoe; and was commissioned on 20 June 1863, Capt. Daniel B. Ridgeley in command.
		Shenandoah reached Green Bay in the Bahamas on 13 December 1864 to investigate reports that Confederate privateers were being fitted out there to prey on Union commerce.
		From there Shenandoah proceeded to Chefoo, China, where she received orders to sail for Korea to attempt to rescue the crew of the American schooner, General Sherman, which had been destroyed in the Ping YangRiver some 18 months previously.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s11/shenandoah-i.htm (2267 words)

	USS Shenandoah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first Shenandoah was a screw sloop commissioned in 1863, active in the American Civil War, and in use until 1886.
		The second Shenandoah (ZR-1) was the first rigid airship built by the Navy, christened 1923 but destroyed in a storm in 1925.
		The fourth Shenandoah (AD-44) is also a destroyer tender, commissioned 1983 and decommissioned 1996.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Shenandoah (208 words)

	History of the Shenandoah's
		Shenandoah was assigned duty with the South Atlantic Squadron from 1879-1882 and the South Pacific Squadron from 1883-1886.
		The Airship SHENANDOAH (ZR-1), the first rigid, lighter than air craft to be designed and built by the U.S. Navy, was 680 feet long, contained 2,100,000 cubic feet of gas and was capable of attaining a speed of 60 knots.
		Shenandoah's rescue of the crew of a sinking merchantman won her international attention in 1964.
	toughtender.tripod.com /AD26/ad26shenandoahhistory.html (875 words)

	U.S. Civil War Navies.
		USS Agawam on the James River, Virginia, 1864.
		Naval Skirmishes 1: Capture of a Crew from the USS Cambridge, November 17, 1862.
		USS Miami Gun Crew Often Misidentified as Being Aboard the USS Mendota.
	www.tfoenander.com (1365 words)

	USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49)
		USS HARPERS FERRY is the first of four new cargo variants to the WHIDBEY ISLAND class of dock landing ships.
		Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers, Harpers Ferry is known for its scenic beauty and historic significance.
		USS HARPERS FERRY’s mission is to project power ashore by transporting and launching amphibious craft and vehicle loaded with embarked Marines and their equipment in an amphibious assault.
	navysite.de /ships/lsd49.htm (858 words)

	Timeline 1862-1863
		1862 May 13, Robert Smalls, a slave crewman on the Confederate steamboat Planter, stole the ship from the harbor of Charleston and surrendered it to the USS Onward of the Union blockade.
		1862 Jul 24, Martin Van Buren (79), the eighth president of the United States, died in Kinderhook, N.Y. 1862 Jul 29, At Moore’s Mill in Missouri, the Confederates were routed by Union guerrillas.
		1862 Sep 22, President Lincoln announced at a cabinet meeting that he intended to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863.
	www.timelines.ws /1862_1863.HTML (14815 words)

	The Civil War Time Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		July 29th 1862: Belle Boyd is captured Confederate spy Marie Isabella "Belle" Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C. It was the first of three arrests for this skilled spy who provided crucial information to the Confederates during the war.
		August 6th 1862: Loss of C.S.S. Arkansas The C.S.S. Arkansas, the most feared Confederate ironclad on the Mississippi River, is blown up by her crew after suffering mechanical problems during a battle with the U.S.S. Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
		August 14th 1862: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith begins an invasion of Kentucky as part of a Confederate plan to draw the Yankee army of General Don Carlos Buell away from Chattanooga, Tennessee, and to raise support for the Southern cause in Kentucky.
	www.rebelyell.com /civil_war_time_line_1862.htm (2572 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-A Short Philatelic History of The Yangtze Patrol by George Saqqal-
		USS ASHUELOT and USS MONOCACY (Figure 2) were both fully rigged, 1030 ton, side-wheel, double-ended gunboats whose armament consisted of four 8-inch smooth bore cannon, two sixty-pounder naval rifles, two 24-pounder howitzers, and two 20-pounder naval rifles.
		Officially she was the USS MONOCACY, the first of two gunboats to bear that name proudly on the Yangtze, and typical of the type of boat sent to the Yangtze to look after American interests.
		She even served as an escort in WWII as the USS DOVER (IX-30) and at war's end she was struck from the Register of Naval Vessels in 1946 and sold for scrap that same year at age 50.
	ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/PhilatelicHistoryofTheYan.html (14008 words)

	Usn Veterans Burial Sites
		Philip Blanch, a Landsman aboard the USS Prairie Bird, died on February 1 1896, and is buried at the Vicksburg National Cemetery.
		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.
	www.tfoenander.com /burials.html (16953 words)

	The Mariners' Museum - Monitor: History and Legacy
		Bankhead was given the Monitor and took command from Thomas Stevens on September 10, 1862.
		Shortly after Bankhead took command the Monitor's boilers and engines were condemned, and on October 3, 1862, the ironclad arrived at the Washington Navy Yard for repairs.
		On December 31, 1862, a storm hit seas off Hatteras, and the Monitor, under tow by the USS Rhode Island, foundered and sank with the loss of four officers and 16 men.
	www.mariner.org /monitor/07_life/bio_monitor_6.html (395 words)

	Naval War Discussion
		The Shenandoah vs the New England whaling fleet.
		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)

	The Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Spring 1862 was a dark time for the Confederacy.
		The emergence of the ironclad ram CSS Virginia (the captured and refitted USS Merrimack) on March 8, 1862, sent shock waves through the Union command.
		A strategic balance was quickly gained when the novel Union ironclad USS Monitor arrived and fought the Virginia to a standstill the next day.
	www.peninsulacampaign.org /campaign.shtml (1618 words)

	CivilWar@Smithsonian Timeline
		The ironclads USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (formerly the sunken USS Merrimack, which the Confederates had raised from the Norfolk Navy Yard and rebuilt as an ironclad) battle to a draw at Hampton Roads, Virginia, demonstrating the superior potential of vessels made of steel.
		Stonewall Jackson’s Shenandoah Valley campaign begins successfully with a victory at the Battle of McDowell in Virginia.
		During the Battle of Seven Pines in Virginia, Robert E. Lee takes over command of the Confederate army from the wounded Joseph E. Johnston.
	www.civilwar.si.edu /timeline_1862.html (240 words)

	Civil War Timeline / Chronology for March 1862
		The Merrimac (CSS Virginia) battles the USS Congress and the USS Cumberland, destroying both frigates and killing more than 240 of their crewmen.
		Joseph E. Johnston orders the Confederate Army of the Potomac to withdraw from Centerville/Manassas to the Rappahannock River based on reports from JEB Stuart of increased Yankee activity
		In the first battle of the Shenandoah Campaign, Major General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson [CS] loses to Brig.
	blueandgraytrail.com /year/186203 (510 words)

	Civil War Books: Naval & Marine Corps
		They date from the time Geer boarded the newly commissioned warship in January 1862 through its foundering in rough seas the last day of the same year.
		~~~~ Assigned to the gunboat CSS McRae during the early fighting on the Mississippi, the young midshipman was on that vessel during the fierce battle for New Orleans in April of 1862.
		The journal of a Confederate sailor aboard the CSS Tennessee and the journal of a U.S. Marine aboard the USS Hartford.
	www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com /cwnaval.html (2776 words)

	civil war veteran: 60th New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Railroad Brigade, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1862.
		2nd Brigade, Sigel's Division, Dept. of the Shenandoah, to June 26, 1862.
		3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to October, 1862.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/civil_war/103555/940027 (336 words)

	F Company Association - Funsten, David: Civil War Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This collection consists primarily of wartime materials collected by John Walter Fairfax (1828–1908), a member of James Longstreet's staff, concerning the operations of troops under Longstreet's command.
		Kept by Benjamin Lyons Farinholt (1839–1919) while serving in the 53d Virginia Infantry Regiment, this diary, 2 May–23 September 1862, documents his participation in the battles of Seven Pines and Second Bull Run and the Peninsula campaign.
		A letter, 11 March 1862, from Ivey Foreman (1843–1864) of the Confederate navy to his mother describing, in detail, the attack against the USS Congress during the naval battle of Hampton Roads.
	www.vahistorical.org /CWG/f.htm (1428 words)

	1862 Eastern Theatre
		Ambrose E. Burnside, throws his army against Lee's near Fredricksbrug, Virginia, in a series of frontal assaults that are easily and bloodily repulsed.
		USS Monitor vis CSS Virginia in Hampton Roads, Va. First naval battle between ironclad vessels
		McClellan's Army of the Potomac advance up the virginia peninsula toward Richmond
	nps-vip.net /history/glance/1862e.htm (339 words)

	USCWC -- Flags, Navies, and Uniforms/Dress
		The Confederate Navy's Shenandoah and a Costly Visit to Melbourne in 1865
		History and Legacy of the Civil War ironland U.S.S. Monitor
		List of Officers and Crew of the CSS Florida captured by the USS Wachusett
	www.cwc.lsu.edu /links/cwinfo3.htm (336 words)

	Virginia County or City Search Results
		Typhoid Fever; buried in Brumback Cemetery, Route 671, West of Woodstock, Shenandoah Co Copp, Morgan
		WIA at Chancellorsville 05/03/1863; 06/??/1863; buried in St Paul's Lutheran Church Cemetery Strasburg, Shenandoah Co Lovy, George Thomas
		Heinshman?; Residence: Edinburg, Shenandoah Co or Rockingham Co/Harrisonburg, City of?; 80th Division; buried in Meuse-Argonne Cemetery, Romagne, France, Block C, Row 11, Grave 16
	www.lva.lib.va.us /whatwehave/mil/vmd/locresults.asp?place=Shenandoah (887 words)

	SOUTHRON SENTINEL
		However, take the time to learn what these parties believe so that you will make an informed decision.
		5: CSS David explodes a star torpedo, damaging the USS New Ironsides in Charleston Harbor (1863)
		19: CS Shenandoah debuts in Confederate Navy (1864)
	southronsentinel.tripod.com /Issue11.htm (9752 words)

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		Interview with Donald Stratton: USS Arizona Survivor's Tale
		Badly burned in the blast that killed more than a thousand of his shipmates, Donald Stratton lives every day with the physical and mental scars left from the attack on Pearl Harbor.
	www.historynet.com /?MilitaryHistory/articles/1998/02982_test.htm (446 words)

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