USS Cincinnati

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The City - Class Ironclad USS Cincinnati. Looks like laundry day.

Launched:
October 1861 in Mound City, Illinois.
Actions:
-Attack on Fort Henry, Feb 1862
-Siege of Island Number 10, March 1862
-Bombardment of Fort Pillow, April 1862.
-Rammed and sunk during Fort Pillow. Raided and refitted.
-Attack on Fort Hindman, January 1863.
-Sunk by batteries at Vicksburg, May 1863.
- Raised and refitted, August 1863.
-Tombigbee River, Alabama May 1865.
Fate: Decommissioned August 4, 1865; sold March 28, 1866. Sank at moorings in the Cache River, 1866.

 

[John Winn]

Thanks for posting that photo. One of the veterans who is buried in the historic cemetery where I volunteer was the carpenter on the Cincinnati at Fort Henry. He's mentioned in Admiral Dixon's The Naval History of the Civil War.

 

[Mike Serpa]

Thanks for posting that photo. One of the veterans who is buried in the historic cemetery where I volunteer was the carpenter on the Cincinnati at Fort Henry. He's mentioned in Admiral Dixon's The Navel History of the Civil War.

Tell me 'navel' is a typo!

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

Dunno, Porter seems to have done a lot of naval-gazing and navel-gazing as well!

 

[John Winn]

Tell me 'navel' is a typo!

Well ... that's embarrassing. My only excuse is that I type these things early in the morning before I've had my coffee. Too late to edit now.

 

[bdtex]

Tell me 'navel' is a typo!

Fixed that.

 

[redbob]

It was reported that several 42# guns were taken from the Cincinnati and served during the siege of Vicksburg by Union army artillery crews directed by naval personnel.

 

[bdtex]

The City - Class Ironclad USS Cincinnati. Looks like laundry day.

Launched:
October 1861 in Mound City, Illinois.
Actions:
-Attack on Fort Henry, Feb 1862
-Siege of Island Number 10, March 1862
-Bombardment of Fort Pillow, April 1862.
-Rammed and sunk during Fort Pillow. Raided and refitted.
-Attack on Fort Hindman, January 1863.
-Sunk by batteries at Vicksburg, May 1863.
- Raised and refitted, August 1863.
-Tombigbee River, Alabama May 1865.
Fate: Decommissioned August 4, 1865; sold March 28, 1866. Sank at moorings in the Cache River, 1866.

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I recently read some accounts of her sinking at Vicksburg. The civilians of Vicksburg were happy about it.

 

[Louisiana Jayhawker]

They certainly got their money worth out of her as she was sunk twice only to be reborn to fight again. Is not that very cool! Her first sinking proved the ancient tactic of ramming was still effective (Plum Point TN). Her second sinking proved the hazard of plunging artillery rounds fired from enemy batteries placed on great heights (Vicksburg MS). Those rounds can easily smash through the weaker points of the vessels (deck and roof).

 

[John Winn]

Fixed that.

Thank you, sir.

 

[Mike Serpa]

Well ... that's embarrassing. My only excuse is that I type these things early in the morning before I've had my coffee. Too late to edit now.

I was just giving you a bad time.

 

[John Winn]

I was just giving you a bad time.

Yeah, I know. It's OK - I'd have done the same to you.

It just hurt a little as I am a stickler for spelling and grammar. Poetic justice I suppose.

 

[Mike Serpa]

Yeah, I know. It's OK - I'd have done the same to you.

It just hurt a little as I am a stickler for spelling and grammar. Poetic justice I suppose.

That's what friends are for!

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

It's still apropos enough for Porter that I'd unabashedly own it, if it were me!

 

[JPK Huson 1863]