Blockade Captures

[13 IL Cav & 64 GA Inf]

15 Oct 1861

South Carolina. USS Roanoke, USS Flag, USS Monticello, and USS Vandalia captured and burned the blockade-runner Thomas Watson on Stono Reef and capture of schooners Albion and Alert off Charleston.

1861 October 15th

October 15 1861 Monday Operations at the Mouth of the Mississippi Go to October 16 1861 Missouri. Operations continue around Ironton and Fredericktown with incidents at Big River Bridge, Potosi, a…

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Lithograph of USS Roanoke as a steam frigate, prior to her 1862-63 conversion to an ironclad. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 45364.

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Sketch by F. Muller of USS Vandalia underway. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 43851

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Love the sketches and maps!

 

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15 Oct 1862

Florida. Union boat crews from USS Fort Henry, Acting Lieutenant Edward Y McCauley, were reconnoitring the Apalachicola River and captured the sloop G L Brockenborough with a cargo of cotton.

1862 October 15th

October 15 1862 Wednesday Smith’s Invasion of Kentucky Bragg’s Invasion of Kentucky Go to October 16 1862 Nova Scotia. CSS Alabama, Captain Raphael Semmes, captured and burned the bark …

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Brockenborough (Tender)

A shortened form of G. L. Brockenborough, the name of a sloop captured by the Union steamer Fort Henry. After purchasing this prize, the Union Navy used this simpler name almost exclusively. Tender: complement 4; armament 1 rifled howitzer On 16 October 1862, Acting Lt. Edward Y. McCauley, the commanding officer of the Union steamer Fort Henry, ordered Acting Master Robert B. Smith to lead a reconnaissance expedition up the Apalachicola River. During the ensuing operation, Smith's boats exchanged fire with Southerners ashore and signaled Sagamore for help. That gunboat's launch brought a howitzer into the fray, "…cleared the banks of the guerrillas," and enabled the Union boats to continue on upstream. A short distance past the town of Apalachicola, Smith found a sailing ship which had grounded inside the mouth of a creek. She proved to be G. L. Brockenborough, a sloop carrying 64 bales of cotton. Her master and a single passenger were still on board. The Union sailors refloated the vessel and took her to Key West where she was condemned by the prize court and purchased by Rear-Adm. James L. Lardner on 15 November 1862. Sent back to waters off the Apalachicola, Brockenborough (also spelled Brockenboro) served the East Gulf Blockading Squadron as a tender to the double-ended side wheeler Port Royal and the gunboat (former New York ferryboat) Somerset.

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/b/brockenborough-i.html

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15 Oct 1863

Florida. USS Honduras, Acting Master Abraham N Gould, seized the British steamer Mail near St Petersburg, bound from Bayport to Havana with a cargo of cotton and turpentine. The capture was made after a three-hour chase in which USS Two Sisters, USS Sea Bird, and USS Fox also participated.

1863 October 15th

October 15 1863 Thursday Siege of Chattanooga Bristoe Campaign Shelby’s Raid in Arkansas and Missouri Second Bayou Teche Expedition Go to October 16 1863 Florida. USS Honduras, Acting Master Abraha…

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USS Honduras at anchor in Key West, 17 January 1865. Scott De Wolf Collection. Image from Flickr courtesy of Florida Keys Public Libraries photo # MM00042290x.

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USS Two Sisters (former blockade runner)
(Sen.: t. 54; a. 1 12-pdr.)
Two Sisters, a schooner built in 1856 at Baltimore, was captured on 21 September 1862 by Union steamer Albatross off the mouth of the Rio Grande River while attempting to slip through the Federal blockade to Brownsville, Tex., with a cargo of 87 bales of gunny cloth needed by the Confederacy for baling cotton. Subsequently purchased by the Navy from the Prize Court at Key West, Fla., Two Sisters was commissioned on 30 January 1863 at Key West, Acting Master William A. Arthur in command.

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/t/two-sisters.html

USS Sea Bird (schooner) (former blockade runner)
(Sch.: t. 58; l. 59'8"; b. 18'4"; dph. 6'12"; dr. 7'6"; cpl.- 15; a. 1 12-pdr. how.)
Sea Bird, a schooner captured by Union side wheel steamer DeSoto on 13 May 1863, was purchased by the Navy on 12 July 1863 from the Key West prize court. The ship was soon fitted out at Key West and commissioned there either in late July or in early August, Acting Master Charles P. Clark in command.

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/s/sea-bird-schooner.html

USS Fox (Schooner) (former blockade runner)
(Sch: t. 80; dr. 8'6"; a. 1 12-pdr. how., 1 12-pdr. r.)
Fox, a schooner, was built in 1859 at Baltimore, Md.; used as a blockade runner by the Confederates under the name Alabama; captured 18 April 1863 by Susquehanna; purchased from the prize court 6 May 1863; renamed Fox, her former merchant name; and first put to sea 10 June 1863, Acting Master A. Weston in command.

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/f/fox-ii.html

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16 Oct 1861

Louisiana. USS South Carolina, Commander James Alden, captured the schooner Edward Barnard, out of Mobile, with a cargo of turpentine on board at South West Pass.

1861 October 16th

October 16 1861 Tuesday Bolivar Heights, VA Operations at the Mouth of the Mississippi Go to October 17 1861 Bahamas. The Confederate privateer Sallie, Master Henry S Lebby, captured the American b…

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Not sure which South West Pass as Louisiana has two.

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16 Oct 1863

Florida. The USS Tahoma, Lieutenant-Commander Alexander Alderman Semmes, and USS Adela, Acting Lieutenant Louis N Stodder, steamed past Gadsden Point and bombarded Fort Brooke near Tampa. This was a diversion while a landing party of 130 men under Acting Master T R Harris disembarked at Ballast Point and marched fourteen miles to the Hillsborough River to capture several steamers. Harris and his men surprised and captured the blockade-running steamer Scottish Chief and sloop Kate Dale. The Confederates destroyed the steamer A B Noyes to prevent her capture. Two Confederate crewmen escaped and raised the alarm. On its way back to the ship, Harris' force was surprised by a detachment of the fort's garrison under Captain John Westcott. Five members of the Union landing party were killed, ten were wounded and five were taken prisoner.

1863 October 16th

October 16 1863 Friday Siege of Chattanooga Bristoe Campaign Shelby’s Raid in Arkansas and Missouri Second Bayou Teche Expedition Go to October 17 1863 USA. A major evolution in the organisation of…

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Wash drawing by R.G. Skerrett, 1903, depicting USS Tahoma as she was during the Civil War. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 57826. Courtesy of the US Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C

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Drawing by George H. Rogers, of USS Adela depicting the ship "on blockading service off the coast of Florida, winter of 1863". The artist served on board Adela as a Pharmacist's Mate. Photo courtesy of Charles Rodgers Lord. US Navy photo # NH 67250 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command

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USS Adela (former blockade runner)
(Paddle-wheel Steamer: tonnage 585 (gross register); length 211'0"; beam 23'6"; depth of hold 12'0"; draft 9'3"; speed 12.0 knots; complement 70; armament 2 20-pounder Parrott rifles, 4 24-pounder smoothbores)

Adela, a fast, iron-hulled, paddle-wheel steamer was purchased by an unidentified agent who planned to use her for carrying arms and other contraband through the Union blockade. The ship got underway on 4 July 1862 and headed for the island of New Providence to take on her forbidden cargo at Nassau and to prepare for a dash through the Union blockade. Shortly after dawn on the 7th, lookouts on board two Northern warships, the paddle-wheel steamer Quaker City and the screw steamer Huntsville, spotted the would-be blockade runner northwest of Great Abaco Island. Quaker City fired a shell across Adela's bow, signaling her to heave to. After the fleeing steamer had ignored not only that round, but a second in the same direction and two more behind her stern, Quaker City sent a fifth shell directly into her stubborn quarry. The paddle-wheeler continued her efforts to get away. Finally, a sixth shot into Adela's beam persuaded her commanding officer, James Walker, a former master of the Cunard Line's famed sidewheeler Great Eastern, to stop. A prize crew from Quaker City boarded the British steamer, and the Union warship towed the captured vessel to Key West where she was turned over to the Admiralty court.

British authorities strongly protested this action by the Union blockaders, demanding the release of the ship and of two bags of mail which she had been carrying. One had been taken on board at Liverpool and the other at Bermuda. The ensuing protracted diplomatic relations delayed the United States attorney at Key West as he attempted to press charges against the ship, but did not save her from ultimate condemnation. The Union case was strengthened by the fact that Adela's master removed the mail bags from the courthouse and destroyed their contents which was thereafter presumed to contain evidence of forbidden activity. Once the vessel finally had been condemned, the Navy purchased her on 23 May 1863.

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/a/adela.html

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16 Oct 1863

Texas. USS Tennessee, Acting Lieutenant Wiggin, seized the blockade running British schooner Friendship off Rio Brazos with a cargo of munitions from Havana. They also forced the schooner Jane to be destroyed by her own crew to prevent capture.

1863 October 16th

October 16 1863 Friday Siege of Chattanooga Bristoe Campaign Shelby’s Raid in Arkansas and Missouri Second Bayou Teche Expedition Go to October 17 1863 USA. A major evolution in the organisation of…

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USS Tennessee I (Sidewheel Gunboat) (former blockade runner) (lost treasure ship)
(Sidewheel Gunboat: tonnage 1,275; length 210'0"; beam 33'0"; draft 16'6"; armament 2 32‑pounders, 1 30‑pounder Parrott rifle, 1 12‑pounder [1863])

The side wheel steamer Tennessee was built at Baltimore, Md. in 1854 for Charles Morgan's Texas Line, was seized on 15 January 1862 and put into service as a Confederate government‑operated blockade runner. Captured by U.S. forces at New Orleans on 25 April 1862, however, she was commissioned as Tennessee on 8 May 1862, Acting Master John D. Childs in command. On 1 September 1864, following the capture of the Confederate ironclad Tennessee and her commissioning as a ship of the U.S. Navy, the side‑wheel gunboat was renamed Mobile. Heavily damaged soon after in a gale off the Rio Grande, Mobile was sent to New York for repairs. Sold to Russell Sturgis on 30 March 1865, the ship was redocumented as Republic on 12 May 1865. Ultimately, she foundered at sea off Savannah, Ga., on 25 October 1865.

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/m/mobile-i.html

SS Tennessee / CSS Tennessee / USS Tennessee / USS Mobile / SS Republic then went onto fame as a lost treasure ship which was salvaged by Odyssey Marine Exploration.

The SS Republic - The Bizarre Civil War Treasure Ship

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Oct 2, 2022

The history of the SS Republic from its building to its sinking and recovery. What was this ship carrying? How did it sink? What was recovered?

I believe the custody case is still in court.

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17 Oct 1863

Georgia. Lieutenant Commander William Gibson, commanding the USS Seneca, reported that the blockaded steamer Herald had escaped the previous night from Darien. He reported that one gunboat could not guard all of the estuaries and creeks of the Altamaha River, now that the port of Charleston has been closed to unlawful commerce.

1863 October 17th

October 17 1863 Saturday Siege of Chattanooga Bristoe Campaign Shelby’s Raid in Arkansas and Missouri Second Bayou Teche Expedition Go to October 18 1863 USA. US President Abraham Lincoln, exploiti…

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USS Seneca underway. Captain Daniel Ammen's Civil War sketch from a Century Co. New York Publication in 1888.

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The Blockade runner Herald was owned by Fraser, Trenholm and Company.

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18 Oct 1861

North Carolina. USS Gemsbok, Acting Master Cavendy, captured the brig Ariel with a cargo of salt, off Wilmington.

1861 October 18th

October 18 1861 Thursday Operations at the Mouth of the Mississippi Go to October 19 1861 Kentucky. Skirmish near Rockcastle Hills. Mississippi. A Union reconnaissance began down the Mississippi Ri…

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Harris and his men surprised and captured the blockade-running steamer Scottish Chief

The story of the Scottish Chief of post #45...

A side-wheeler steamship, she plied the waters between Tampa and Havana delivering cattle, tobacco and other goods on behalf of Central Floridians. She was best known during the Civil War as a blockade runner, hunted by the Union and valued as a lifeline by Confederate residents of Central Florida. She was the Scottish Chief, the pride of Capt. James McKay. And almost 150 years ago, she was the cause of Tampa's only Civil War battle....

...As for the Scottish Chief, it was not forgotten. Researchers working with the Florida Aquarium located the sunken remains of the 124-foot oak and pine steamer in 2009. The badly burned ship had apparently stayed afloat after the attack, allowing the Confederates to tow it away and strip it of anything of value that remained, the Tampa Tribune reported in 2009. It sank near what is now Blake High School, not far from where I-275 crosses the Hillsborough River near downtown Tampa. It remains there to this day.

Full article here - https://web.archive.org/web/2021010...er.com/article/LK/20120413/News/608116817/LL/

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19 Oct 1863

Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina. A landing party from USS T A Ward, Acting Master William L Babcock, went ashore to recover the cargo aboard the grounded blockade runner Rover. They were surprised by Confederate cavalry and 10 or 11 of the men were captured, while the cargo was taken by the Confederates.

1863 October 19th

October 19 1863 Monday Battle of Buckland Mills, VA (CWSAC Limited Battle – Confederate Victory) Siege of Chattanooga Bristoe Campaign Shelby’s Raid in Arkansas and Missouri Second Bayou Teche Expe…

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19 Oct 1864

Texas. USS Mobile, Acting Lieutenant Giraud, captured the schooner Emily off San Luis Pass with a cargo of 150 bales of cotton.

1864 October 19th

October 19 1864 Wednesday Second Battle of Lexington, MO (CWSAC Limited Battle – Confederate Victory) Battle of Cedar Creek, VA (CWSAC Decisive Battle – Union Victory) Siege of Petersburg She…

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20 Oct 1862

South Carolina. The steamer Minho ran aground while running the blockade out of Charleston.

1862 October 20th

October 20 1862 Monday Smith’s Invasion of Kentucky Bragg’s Invasion of Kentucky Go to October 21 1862 USA. US President Abraham Lincoln authorised Major-General John Alexander McClerna…

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The ships carried large cargoes for their size. The Navigation Company's 399-ton Scottish-built steamer Minho, which ran aground off Charleston Harbor's Fort Moultrie on 20 October 1862, was carrying 7,340 Enfields, 2,100 swords, 87 cases of ammunition, and 80 cases of percussion caps. The remainder of her cargo included shoes and clothing.

The Business of Blockade Running

The daring captains and swift vessels that helped keep the Confederacy alive were part of a well-organized—and highly profitable—Civil War enterprise.

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Caledonian Maritime Research Trust
Scottish Built Ships
The History of Shipbuilding in Scotland
Iron Screw Steamer Minho

Screw Steamer MINHO built by Blackwood & Gordon in 1854 for J. & J. Bibby, Liverpool., Passenger / Cargo

Screw Steamer MINHO built by Blackwood & Gordon in 1854 for J. & J. Bibby, Liverpool., Passenger / Cargo Ran Aground near Fort Moultrie Sullivan's Island, South Carolina while operating as a blockade runner.

www.clydeships.co.uk

...and there are sites on the web where you can buy items salvaged from her cargo.

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20 Oct 1863

Florida. USS Annie, Acting Ensign Williams, seized the blockade-running British schooner Martha Jane off Bayport, bound to Havana with a cargo of Sea Island cotton.

1863 October 20th

October 20 1863 Tuesday Siege of Chattanooga Bristoe Campaign Shelby’s Raid in Arkansas and Missouri Second Bayou Teche Expedition Go to October 21 1863 Great Britain. Confederate Commander John Du…

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The U.S. tender Annie off the Fort Henry today captured the British blockade-running schooner Martha Jane near Bayport. The English vessel has 26,609 pounds of Sea-island cotton aboard, plus $1,206.88 in gold, silver, and U.S. treasury notes, and $127.70 in Confederate money. ($44,431.84 today quite a hunk of change)

Judah P. Benjamin - Page 14

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USS Annie (former blockade runner)
(Sch: t.- 27;- 1.- 46'2"; b.-- 14'0";- dph.- 4'6";- dr.- 5'; cpl.- 7; a. 1 12-pdr. sb.)

On the evening of 26 February 1863, armed boats commanded by Acting Master Robert B. Smith from the Union sidewheel steamer Fort Henry captured Anna while that schooner was attempting to slip through the blockade and enter the Suwanee River with a widely varied cargo from the Bahamas. The prize's master, Capt. H. Hanson, acknowledged that he was ". . . endeavoring to run the blockade." Anna was condemned by the Key West prize court and the Navy purchased her on 11 March 1863 for service in the East Gulf Blockading Squadron. However, for some unknown reason, the vessel's name appeared as Annie and so it remained throughout her naval service. Almost a year later, on 8 March 1864, the squadron commanding officer, Acting Rear Admiral Theodorus Bailey, explained this discrepancy to the Navy Department. "The tender referred to, when captured, was called Anna, but she has, by some inadvertence, been always called the Annie, since being taken into the service of the Government, and I am of the opinion that it would be more convenient to preserve the name of Annie." Another prize came Annie's, way on the afternoon of 20 October when she captured the British schooner Martha Jane, outward-bound from Bayport, laden with cotton.

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/a/annie.html

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21 Oct 1863

Mississippi. USS J P Jackson, Lieutenant Lewis W Pennington, captured the schooner Syrena near Deer Island.

1863 October 21st

October 21 1863 Wednesday Siege of Chattanooga Bristoe Campaign Shelby’s Raid in Arkansas and Missouri Second Bayou Teche Expedition Go to October 22 1863 Alabama. Skirmish at Cherokee Station on t…

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Watercolor of SS J. P. Jackson by Erik Heyl, 1962, painted for use in his book "Early American Steamers", Volume IV. Courtesy of Erik Heyl. US Navy photo # NH 63704 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command

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John P. Jackson was built in Brooklyn, New York, in 1860 for use by the New Jersey Rail Road and Transportation Company as a ferry. Jackson ferried president-elect Abraham Lincoln across the Hudson River in February 1861, while he was journeying to Washington, D.C. to be inaugurated.

Railroad Ferries of the Hudson and Stories of a Deckhand by Baxter, Raymond J.; Adams, Arthur G.
New York and the Lincoln Specials: The President's Pre-Inaugural and Funeral Trains Cross the Empire State by Collea, Joseph D.

This Syrena not to be confused with the record setting Syren.

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21 Oct 1864

Florida. USS Sea Bird, Ensign E L Robbins, captured the blockade-running British schooner Lucy off Anclote Keys, with assorted cargo.

1864 October 21st

October 21 1864 Friday Battle of Little Blue River, MO (CWSAC Limited Battle – Confederate Victory) Siege of Petersburg Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign Hood’s Operations in Northern Ala…

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Sea Bird (schooner)(former blockade runner)
(Sch.: t. 58; l. 59'8"; b. 18'4"; dph. 6'12"; dr. 7'6"; cpl.- 15; a. 1 12-pdr. how.)

Sea Bird, a schooner captured by Union side wheel steamer DeSoto on 13 May 1863, was purchased by the Navy on 12 July 1863 from the Key West prize court. The ship was soon fitted out at Key West and commissioned there either in late July or in early August, Acting Master Charles P. Clark in command.

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/s/sea-bird-schooner.html

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21 Oct 1863

North Carolina. USS Nansemond, Lieutenant Roswell H Lamson, chased the blockade-running steamer Venus ashore near Cape Fear River. Four shots from the blockader caused the steamer to take on water. Attempts were made to recover Venus in the morning but it proved impossible and the ship was set on fire. A notebook found aboard Venus recorded that 75 ships had so far been engaged in blockade-running during 1863, of which 32 had been captured or destroyed.

1863 October 21st

October 21 1863 Wednesday Siege of Chattanooga Bristoe Campaign Shelby’s Raid in Arkansas and Missouri Second Bayou Teche Expedition Go to October 22 1863 Alabama. Skirmish at Cherokee Station on t…

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https://www.carolana.com/NC/Civil_War/Report_of_the_Secretary_of_the_Navy_1863.pdf

Please see informative web page with cool map...

Destruction of the Blockade Runner "Venus" - October 21, 1863

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21 Oct 1863

Virginia. USS Currituck, Acting Lieutenant Hooker, and USS Fuchsia, Acting Master Street, captured the Confederate steamer Three Brothers in the Rappahannock River.

1863 October 21st

October 21 1863 Wednesday Siege of Chattanooga Bristoe Campaign Shelby’s Raid in Arkansas and Missouri Second Bayou Teche Expedition Go to October 22 1863 Alabama. Skirmish at Cherokee Station on t…

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Pencil drawing of USS Currituck during Civil War. US Library of Congress Photo #214084/CT LC-USZC4-5247, May 1962

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USS Currituck was the vessel that towed USS Monitor to Hampton Roads, Virginia.

USS Fuchsia in 1863 on the Potomac River. from a water color by Clary Ray, December 1896. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 57835.

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Last one for today...

21 Oct 1864

South Carolina. USS Fort Jackson, Captain Sands, captured the steamer Wando at sea east of Cape Romain, with a cargo of cotton.

1864 October 21st

October 21 1864 Friday Battle of Little Blue River, MO (CWSAC Limited Battle – Confederate Victory) Siege of Petersburg Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign Hood’s Operations in Northern Ala…

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Caledonian Maritime Research Trust
Scottish Built Ships
The History of Shipbuilding in Scotland
Iron Paddle Steamer LET HER RIP (Wando)

Paddle Steamer LET HER RIP built by Kirkpatrick, McIntyre & Co in 1864 for L. G. Bowers., Passenger / Cargo

Paddle Steamer LET HER RIP built by Kirkpatrick, McIntyre & Co in 1864 for L. G. Bowers., Passenger / Cargo February 1872 sank in a storm

www.clydeships.co.uk

Please see @Ptarmigan 's thread https://civilwartalk.com/threads/blockade-runner-picture.188840/

USS Fort Jackson, photographed during the Civil War, circa 1863-1865. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo #: NH 61581

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Lithograph of the side-wheel blockade runner SS Wando in port, 1864. Frank Leslies Illustrated Weekly Newspaper

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USS Wando I (Sidewheel Steamer)(former blockade runner)
(displacement 645 tons; length 230'; beam 26'; draft 7'; armament 1 20-pounder Parrot rifle, 1 12-pounder, 1 12-pounder rifle)

Built as the iron sidewheel steamer blockade runner SS Let Her Rip by Messrs. Kirkpatrick, M'Intyre & Co., Port Glasgow, Scotland. Purchased by Chicora Import & Export Co. of Charleston, S.C. in May 1864 and renamed SS Wando while at Wilmington, N.C. Wando, a side-wheel steamer built in 1864 at Glasow, Scotland, was captured at sea off Cape Rosmain, SC., by Union side-wheel steamer Fort Jackson on 21 October 1864 as she attempted to slip away from the Confederate coast laden with cotton. The former blockade runner had sailed under British colors as Let Her Rip until May 1864 when the Chicora Import & Export Co. of Charleston, S.C., had purchased the vessel and renamed her Wando. The Navy purchased the ship from the Boston prize court on 5 November 1864; and commissioned her at the Boston Navy Yard on 22 December 1864, Acting Master Frederick T. King in command.

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/w/wando-i.html

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Four actions this day. To begin with...

22 Oct 1862

North Carolina. USS Penobscot, Commander John M B Clitz, captured the blockade-running British brig Robert Burns off Cape Fear.

1862 October 22nd

October 22 1862 Wednesday Battle of Old Fort Wayne, IT (CWSAC Limited Battle Union Victory) Pocataligo, SC Smith’s Invasion of Kentucky Bragg’s Invasion of Kentucky Go to October 23 186…

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22 Oct 1862

North Carolina. Union Lieutenant William Barker Cushing USAN reported that USS Ellis had captured and destroyed the blockade-runner Adelaide at New Topsail Inlet, with a cargo of turpentine, cotton, and tobacco.

1862 October 22nd

October 22 1862 Wednesday Battle of Old Fort Wayne, IT (CWSAC Limited Battle Union Victory) Pocataligo, SC Smith’s Invasion of Kentucky Bragg’s Invasion of Kentucky Go to October 23 186…

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Copy of a pencil drawing of the captured Confederate gunboat CSS Ellis from a diary that was published in 1911 as the book "Long Roll", by Charles F. Johnson, 1843-1896.

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USS Ellis I (Sidewheel Steamer)(former Confederate vessel)
(SwStr: t. 100; dr. 6'; cpl. 28; a. 1 32-pdr. r., 1 12-pdr. how.)

The first Ellis, a sidewheel steamer, was captured from the Confederates at Elizabeth City, N.C., on 10 February 1862 by USS Ceres after a desperate struggle in which her commander, LT. James W. Cooke, CSN, was badly wounded. Assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, she was placed under the command of Lieutenant C. L. Franklin and spent her entire service in the sounds and rivers of North Carolina.

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/e/ellis-i.html

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