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	Tecumseh
		Tecumseh was killed in the ensuing Battle of the Thames on 5 October 1813.
		Tecumseh participated in this effort from 15 to 18 June by sinking four hulks; stretching a heavy boom across the channel supporting a chain cable; extending a heavy boom across the flats; and sinking a schooner along the right hand bank of the river from which a short boom was extended to the flats.
		Tecumseh lay at anchor at Pensacola on 3 August as a flurry of messages arrived from the Gulf Squadron: one from the Fleet Captain and the other from Farragut himself.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/t3/tecumseh.htm (1136 words)

	USS Tecumseh (1863) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tecumseh was launched on 12 September 1863 at Jersey City, New Jersey, by Secor and Company, of New York City; and was commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 19 April 1864, Commander Tunis A. Craven in command.
		Tecumseh lay at anchor at Pensacola, Florida on 3 August as a flurry of messages arrived from the Gulf Squadron: one from the Fleet Captain and the other from Farragut himself.
		In 1873, the Tecumseh was sold for salvage by the Department of the Treasury to James E. Slaughter of Mobile for $50.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Tecumseh_(1863) (1101 words)

	Program in Maritime Studies: Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The history of the TECUMSEH spans nearly 120 years from her construction and eventual loss in 1864 through efforts to recover the wreck in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
		After the success of the original USS MONITOR in the Battle of Hampton Roads the design of Swedish-American engineer John Ericsson was adopted as the standard for Union ironclad construction.
		The TECUMSEH's design, representative of the nine-ship CANONICUS class, was mainly the result of lessons from the combat experience and day-to-day operations of the PASSAIC class.
	www.ecu.edu /maritime/west01.htm (567 words)

	USS Tecumseh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		USS Tecumseh, an iron-hulled, single-turret monitor, was launched 12 September 1863, at Jersey City, New Jersey.
		Tecumseh was instrumental during these operations, sinking four hulks and a schooner.
		Although 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.
	www.history.navy.mil /branches/org12-4.htm (379 words)

	Bright Ideas Press
		It rammed the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor Feb. 16, 1864 with a spar torpedo that was packed with explosive powder and attached to a long pole on the sub’s bow.
		August: Sinking of the USS Tecumseh in the Mobile Bay.
		USS Holland was launched October 12, 1900 and until recently was thought to be the first commissioned U.S. Navy sub.
	www.brightideaspress.com /articles/civil_war_submarine.htm (1063 words)

	Tecumseh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		USS Tecumseh, an iron-hulled, single-turretmonitor, was launched 12 September 1863, at Jersey City, New Jersey.
		Tecumseh was instrumental during these operations,sinking four hulks and a schooner.
		Although Tecumseh was involvedin a number of notable operations along the James River, its most famousbattle would be its last--the Battle of Mobile Bay.
	www.sartori.com /nhc/fframes/org12-4.html (351 words)

	Crew of "USS Tecumseh"
		The Canonicus class armored monitor, USS Tecumseh, was commissioned April 19, 1864, and spent her short life in the North Atlantic, and then the West Gulf Blockading Squadron.
		Richard Collins, seaman; one of eight crew members of the USS Tecumseh, who were able to get one of the ship's boats afloat, and save themselves from the sinking vessel, at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864; this is almost certainly one of the two persons named in the following entries.
		George C. Overton, saved himself, after the sinking of the USS Tecumseh at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, by swimming ashore to Fort Morgan; captured by the Confederates and sent to Andersonville, Georgia, August 21, 1864; this may be the same person listed in the next entry.
	www.tfoenander.com /tecumseh.htm (2546 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.
		Aboard USS New Ironsides at Fort Fisher, 24 and 25 December 1864 and 13, 14 and 15 January 1865.
		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.
	www.pacivilwar.com /medalofhonor/philadelphia.html (2827 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.
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	DAVID GLASGOW FARRAGUT
		In the War of 1812, when he was only 12 years old, he was given cammand of a prize ship taken by the USS Essex and brought her safely to the port.
		Farragut was wounded and captured during the cruise of the Essex by HMS Phoebe in Valparaiso Bay in Chile, on March 28, 1814.
		In command of the West Gulf Blockade Squadron, with his flag in USS Hartford, in April 1862, he ran past Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip and the Chalmette, Louisiana batteries to take the city and port of New Orleans, Louisiana on April 29th of that same year.
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	1862_1863
		1863 May 13, The 54th Massachusetts was mustered in and was the first fl regiment recruited in the North; it suffered 109 battle deaths in the war.
		1863 Dec 2, Charles Ringling, one of the seven Ringling brothers of circus fame, was born.
		1863 Dorence Atwater was captured by the Confederates and his penmanship won him the job of recording the name, company, regiment, disease, date of death, and grave number of each prisoner who had died at Andersonville.
	www.shelbyjackman.com /school/timeline/1862_1863.HTML (13283 words)

	USS Augusta Civil War Union Navy Ship
		USS Augusta, a 1310-ton side-wheel steam cruiser, was built at New York in 1852 as the civilian steamer Augusta.
		She returned to the Charleston area in January 1863 and took part in the engagement with the Confederate ironclads Chicora and Palmetto State at the end of that month.
		Born and nurtured in war, America grew in strength and power until at the beginning of the 21st century it was the foremost military power in the world.
	americancivilwar.com /tcwn/civil_war/Navy_Ships/USS_Augusta.html (806 words)

	Honor and Respect Shown Tecumseh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tecumseh was born in March of 1768 and killed in October of 1813.
		In the early sixties (before PC was all the rage) 41 Ballistic Missile Submarines were named for people judged to have been held in the highest esteem by our nation.
		USS Tecumseh, SSBN 628, was in the first half of those built.
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	CIVIL WAR GUNBOATS: A HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		They needed the aid of ironclads to get across the river, but the ironclads were unable to get past the island during the day because their flanks had no armor to protect then from the rebel fire from the island.
		The Virginia had once been the USS Merrimac, which was abandoned in Norfolk at the beginning of the war by fleeing Union forces.
		The USS Tecumseh was sunk almost immediately, but the Union prevailed, capturing the CSS Tennessee, one of the South's most prized ironclads.
	www.civilwarships.com /history.html (1782 words)

	The Old Schoolhouse Magazine - How-to-Homeschool Article: The Submarine
		It rammed the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor February 16, 1864, with a spar torpedo that was packed with explosive powder and attached to a long pole on the sub’s bow.
		An interesting theory concerning the USS Tecumseh (Captain Farragut: “D*** the torpedoes—full speed ahead!”) has recently been proposed.
		USS Holland is launched October 12, 1900, and until recently was thought to have been the first commissioned US Navy sub.
	www.thehomeschoolmagazine.com /How_To_Homeschool/articles/249.php (1271 words)

	Signature House, the Premier Auction House for Fine Autographs and Collectibles
		[USS TECUMSEH] One of the last existing documents signed by Captain Craven before he died with most of his crew of 141 men after the iron-hulled, single-turret monitor broke from formation to attack the Confederate ironclad ram Tennessee, hit a mine, capsized and quickly plunged bow first to the bottom of Mobile Bay.
		The Tecumseh was one of four monitors that shielded the vulnerable sloops and gunboats from the artillery at Fort Morgan and with orders to stop the Tennessee.
		When the Tecumseh hit a mine and exploded, Craven reportedly moved to the side to allow a junior officer to pass through the narrow hatch, an act of courtesy that cost him his life as the vessel immediately sank.
	www.signaturehouse.net /auctions/auction23/text/05-civilwar.htm (8948 words)

	Fort Morgan/ Fort Gains and the Battle of Mobile Bay
		The wooden ships were lashed together in pairs with the Tecumseh and three other ironclad monitors leading the way.
		Situated well to the right of the Confederate line of battle as the enemy proceeded up the channel she was able to deliver a telling broadside raking fire against USS HARTFORD and others.
		Toward the end of the engagement she was pursued by USS METACOMET but succeeded in driving her off.
	www.civilwarhistory.com /photosaugust/fort_morgan.html (1523 words)

	Thomas Tingey Craven, Rear Admiral, United States Navy
		His brother was Commander Tunius Augustus Macdonough Craven, killed commanding the USS Tecumseh at the Battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864.
		The Confederate ram "Tennessee" was on the port-beam of the "Teeumseh," inside of the line of torpedoes, and Crayen, in his eagerness to engage the ram, passed to the west of the buoy, when suddenly the monitor reeled and sank with almost every one on board, destroyed by a torpedo.
		As the "Tecumseh" was going down, Commodore Craven and his pilot, John Collins, met at the foot of the ladder leading to the top of the turret.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /ttcraven.htm (1830 words)

	Hissem_Heysham-Gibbon Branch
		USS BOSTON's role off the coast of South America was probably to observe the movements of the foreign fleets and to be prepared to offer assistance to the embassy and American citizens ashore, as required.
		While enroute to her new station, under the command of Commander George F. Pearson, USS BOSTON was wrecked on Eleuthera Island, in the Bahamas, during a squall in November 1846.
		The leading monitor, USS TECUMSEH, was proceeding through the gap between the torpedoes and Fort Morgan when its commander directed the ship into the torpedo field so that he could engage the ram CSS TENNESSEE.
	balder.prohosting.com /shissem/Hissem_Heysham-Gibbon_Branch.html (19743 words)

	The Confederate Navy 1861-1865 (Part 2)
		By 1863, blockade running had developed into a fine art; the main reason being the profit factor: salt which sold for $6.50 a ton was worth $1,700 a ton at Richmond and coffee had jumped from $249 a ton to $5,500.
		In 1863 the Union blockade was beginning to make its presence felt; the odds of being caught were 1 in 4.
		A mine was responsible for sinking the USS Tecumseh in Farragut's assault on Mobile Bay, 1864.
	www.magweb.com /sample/scamp/ca90csn2.htm (1607 words)

	HIST 1381 America through Sight and Sound
		In September 1862 (at Antietam in Maryland) and July 1863 (at Gettysburg in Pennsylvania), Robert E. Lee tried and failed to provoke European powers intervention in the war by winning a victory on Northern soil.
		On January 1, 1863, President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in areas still in rebellion (except Tennessee, southern Louisiana, and parts of Virginia) to be “forever free.” It also declares his intention of enlisting fls in the military.
		Union General William Tecumseh Sherman captures Atlanta September 1, boosting Northern morale and greatly contributing to Abraham Lincoln's re-election as president.
	www.class.uh.edu /Mintz/hist1381/civil_war.htm (2633 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Battle of Mobile Bay (8/5/1864) - July 8th, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But the Tecumseh indeed sank that summer morning, August 5, 1864, unexpectedly killing the majority of its crew and demonstrating the deadly effects of advances in technology such as the torpedo.
		As the Tecumseh sank to the bottom, the crew of the Hartford sprang to her starboard rail and gave three ringing cheers in defiance of the enemy and in honor of the dying.
		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)

	5 Aug History: This Date
		F-8 Crusaders, A-1 Skyraiders, and A-4 Skyhawks, from the carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation stationed in the South China Sea, fly 64 sorties against North Vietnamese coastal targets as part of Operation Pierce Arrow in retaliation for the Tonkin Gulf incidents of 02 August and 04 August.
		At the Battle of Stones River, or Murfreesboro, Tennessee (31 Dec1862 - 02 Jan 1863), he was made a major general of volunteers for his unyielding defense of the Federal right center.
		Sheridan was unable to prevent defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia (19-20 Sep 1863), but his assault on Missionary Ridge below Chattanooga, Tennessee, in November, brought his fighting in the West to a brilliant close.
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/history/h4aug/h4aug05.html (8467 words)

	USS Jouett History Page
		Jouett later commanded Montgomery and R. Cuyler on blockading duty and in September 1863 took command of Metacomet.
		In the Battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864, his ship was lashed to Admiral David Farragut's flagship Hartford as the gallant ships entered the bay.
		Monitor Tecumseh was sunk by an underwater "torpedo", but the ships steamed boldly on, inspired by Farragut's famous command: "Damn the torpedoes!
	www.ussjouett.com /history.htm (747 words)

	Diphy - Digital Philately - View Stamp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the War of 1812, when only 12 years old, he was given command of a prize ship taken by USS Essex and brought her safely to port.
		In command of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, with his flag in USS Hartford, in April 1862 he ran past Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip and the Chalmette, Louisiana, batteries to take the city and port of New Orleans, Louisiana, on April 29 that year, a decisive event in the war.
		According to legend, Farragut (who was lashed to the rigging of his flagship the USS Hartford) shouted down the order, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" The bulk of the fleet succeeded in entering the bay.
	www.diphy.com /stamp/US1995.054 (1329 words)

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	members.cox.net /rb2307/content/todayinthewar.htm (3308 words)

	Infernal Machines - Vessels Hit
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	www.infernal-machines.com /_sgt/m4_1.htm (221 words)

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