US Naval Archives Search Įnter the keywords you are looking for and the site will be searched and all occurrences of your request will be displayed. These four programs from the History Channel series Civil War Journal cover critical aspects of the early days of the war. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one But her career came to an end in June of 1864 when she was sunk by the USS Kearsarge off the coast of Northern France She was known as "the ghost ship." During the Civil War, the CSS Alabama sailed over 75,000 miles and captured more than 60 Union vessels. The museum has been in continuous operation at the Washington Navy Yard since the American Civil War Navy Museum takes you on an informed and entertaining romp through one of North America s oldest and finest military museums. In the face of all this fire, the boats made their way with but little loss except the transport Henry Clay which was set on fire & sunk." At the same moment innumerable floats of turpentine and other combustible materials were set ablaze.
the boats left their moorings & steamed down the river, the Benton, Admiral Porter, taking the lead - as they approached the point opposite the town, a terrible concentrated fire of the centre, upper and lower batteries, both water and bluff, was directed upon the channel, which here ran within one hundred yards of the shore. Text under the print's title reads: "At half past ten P.M.
Ships depicted are (from the front to the rear, all USS except as noted)): Benton (Flagship) Lafayette with General Price alongside Louisville Mound City Pittsburg Carondelet transports Silver Wave, Forest Queen & Henry Clay and Tuscumbia. "Admiral Porter's Fleet Running the Rebel Blockade of the Mississippi at VicksburgĬolored lithograph published by Currier & Ives, New York, 1863.
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