Steamer "Cahawba"

[Seduzal]

My great grandfather was in Company I, 3th Connecticut Volunteers, a 3 month Regimment. The Steamer "Cahawba" was the United States Transport "Cahawba". She also was a side-wheel steam ship. I found some information from the Library of Congress. But, my question is: What happened to her?

 

[AndyHall]

Lytle Holdcamper List shows her as being out of service and abandoned in 1867.

She was purchased by the USQMD on May 1, 1864 and re-registered as a civilian vessel on July 22, 1865.

1,643 tons, launched at New York in 1854. Prior to being purchased by the government she has an extensive history as a chartered transport, that I'll post later.

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Zoomable image here:
http://collections.mcny.org/Collect...Cahawba,-De-Soto,-Bienville-2F3XC5N1K9R8.html

 

[Seduzal]

Lytle Holdcamper List shows her as being out of service and abandoned in 1867.

She was purchased by the USQMD on May 1, 1864 and re-registered as a civilian vessel on July 22, 1865.

1m643 tons, launched at New York in 1854. Prior to being purchased by the government she has an extensive history as a chartered transport, that I'll post later.

Thanks Andy.

 

[AndyHall]

Gibson and Gibson, Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessel, Steam and Sail, Employed by the Union Army, 1861-1868:

Mentioned in ORN as due Potomac River from Maine with 1.500 troops May 11, 1861. (She actually had only 800 troops). Chartered June 3, 1861, for unknown period; Oct 4-Dec 30, 1861, during the expedition to Port Royal Sound, South Carolina. Chartered June 9, 1862-Apr 18, 1863. Was in convoy with USS MONITOR during. storm off Cape Hatteras Jan 3, 1863. This was the same convoy in which the USS MONITOR foundered. Chartered again May 7, 1863,
for unknown period. Margin note HR.-337 states vessel was purchased May I, 1864, for $135,000. Reported in Army service at City Point, Virginia, in the summer of 1864. Record indicates vessel was owned by the United States on Oct 15, 1864.​

 

[Seduzal]

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Gibson and Gibson, Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessel, Steam and Sail, Employed by the Union Army, 1861-1868:

Mentioned in ORN as due Potomac River from Maine with 1.500 troops May 11, 1861. (She actually had only 800 troops). Chartered June 3, 1861, for unknown period; Oct 4-Dec 30, 1861, during the expedition to Port Royal Sound, South Carolina. Chartered June 9, 1862-Apr 18, 1863. Was in convoy with USS MONITOR during. storm off Cape Hatteras Jan 3, 1863. This was the same convoy in which the USS MONITOR foundered. Chartered again May 7, 1863,
for unknown period. Margin note HR.-337 states vessel was purchased May I, 1864, for $135,000. Reported in Army service at City Point, Virginia, in the summer of 1864. Record indicates vessel was owned by the United States on Oct 15, 1864.​

Thank you Andy
Is there any other information on her after Oct 15, 1864?

 

[AndyHall]

Is there any other information on her after Oct 15, 1864?

She remained in service as a USQMD transport until late spring/early summer 1865, but details of that would probably have to be teased out of the OR or other sources.

 

[AndyHall]

This is not Cahawba, but it's a picture I like of troops aboard a transport -- not a lot of depictions of that. From Frank Leslie, Famous Leaders and Battle Scenes of the Civil War (New York, NY: Mrs. Frank Leslie, 1896).

 

[Seduzal]

Thanks again, Andy. Just like the picture of troops on the transport, just like soldiers writing home or to a girl friend. Maybe some getting caught up on sleep.