THE NAVY IN THE CIVIL WAR
Published 1883, 1885

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VOLUME III.
THE GULF
AND
INLAND WATERS.

BY
A. T. MAHAN
COMMANDER, U.S. NAVY

 

APPENDIX.


BATTERIES (EXCEPT HOWITZERS) OF VESSELS AT NEW ORLEANS, APRIL, 1862.

 

Names

XI-inch smoothbore

X-inch smoothbore

IX-inch smoothbore

VIII-in. smoothbore

32-pdr smoothbore

100-pounder, rifled

80-pounder, rifled

50-pounder, rifled

30-pounder, rifled

20-pounder, rifled

Hartford

---

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22

---

---

---

---

---

---

2

Brooklyn

---

---

20

---

---

---

1

---

1

---

Richmond

---

---

22

---

---

---

1

---

1

---

Pensacola

1

---

20

---

---

1

1

---

---

---

Mississippi

---

1

---

15

---

---

---

---

---

1

Oneida

2

---

---

---

4

---

---

---

3

---

Iroquois

2

---

---

---

4

---

---

1

---

---

Varuna

---

---

---

8

---

---

---

---

2

---

Cayuga[1]

1

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

1

---

Clifton

---

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2

---

4

---

---

---

1

---

Jackson[2]

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1

1

---

4

---

---

---

---

---

Westfield

---

---

1

4

---

1

---

---

---

---

Harriet Lane

---

---

3

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

Miami

--

--

2

--

--

1

--

--

1

--

 


BATTERIES (EXCEPT HOWITZERS) OF VESSELS
[3] AT PORT HUDSON, MARCH, 1863.

 

Names

XI-inch smoothbore

X-inch smoothbore

IX-inch smoothbore

32-pdr smoothbore

150-pounder, rifled

100-pounder, rifled

30-pounder, rifled

Monongahela

2

---

---

5

1

---

---

Genesee

---

1

4

---

---

2

---

Albatross

---

---

---

4

---

---

1

 


BATTERIES (EXCEPT HOWITZERS) OF VESSELS AT MOBILE, AUGUST, 1864.

 

Names

XV-inch smoothbore

XI-inch smoothbore

X-inch smoothbore

IX-inch smoothbore

32-pdr smoothbore

150-pounder, rifled

100-pounder, rifled

60-pounder, rifled

50-pounder, rifled

30-pounder, rifled

20-pounder, rifled

Tecumseh

2

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

Manhattan

2

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

Winnebago

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4

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

Chickasaw

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4

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

Hartford

---

---

---

18

---

---

2

---

---

1

---

Brooklyn

---

---

---

20

---

---

2

2

---

---

---

Richmond

---

---

---

18

---

---

1

---

---

1

---

Lackawanna

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2

---

4

---

1

---

---

1

---

---

Monongahela

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2

---

---

5

1

---

---

---

---

---

Ossipee

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1

---

---

6

---

1

---

---

3

---

Oneida

---

2

---

---

4

---

---

---

---

3

---

Galena

---

---

---

8

---

---

1

---

---

1

---

Seminole

---

1

---

---

6

---

---

---

---

1

---

Port Royal

---

---

1

2

---

---

1

---

2

---

---

Metacomet

---

---

---

4

---

---

2

---

---

---

---

Octorara

---

---

---

3

2

---

1

---

---

---

---

Itasca

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1

---

---

2

---

---

---

---

---

2

Kennebec

--

1

--

--

2

--

--

--

--

--

2

 


BATTERIES (EXCEPT HOWITZERS) OF MISSISSIPPI SQUADRON, AUGUST,
[4] 1862.

 

Names

X-inch smoothbore

IX-inch smoothbore

VIII-in. smoothbore

32-pdr smoothbore

Army 42s, 70-pounder, rifled

50-pounder, rifled

30-pounder, rifled

Benton

---

2

---

8

4

2

---

Cairo

---

---

3

6

3

---

1

Carondelet

---

---

4

6

1

1

1

Cincinnati

---

---

3

6

2

---

2

Louisville

---

---

3

6

2

---

2

Mound city

---

---

3

6

2

1

1

Pittsburg

---

---

3

6

2

---

2

St. Louis

---

---

3

6

2

---

2

Essex[5]

1

3

---

1

---

2

---

Conestoga

---

---

---

4

---

---

---

Lexington

---

---

4

1

---

---

2

Tyler

---

---

6

---

---

---

3

Eastport5

---

---

---

4

---

2

2

General Bragg5

---

---

---

1

---

---

1

Sumter5

---

---

---

2

---

---

---

Price5

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

Little Rebel

---

---

---

---

---

---

1

 


BATTERIES (EXCEPT HOWITZERS) OF MISSISSIPPI SQUADRON, JANUARY, 1863.

 

Names

XI-inch smoothbore

IX-inch smoothbore

VIII-in. smoothbore

42-pounder, rifled

32-pdr smoothbore

100-pounder, rifled

80-pounder, rifled

50-pounder, rifled

30-pounder, rifled

20-pounder, rifled

Benton

---

8

---

1

4

2

---

2

---

---

Cairo

---

---

3

---

6

---

---

---

1

---

Carondelet

---

3

4

1

1

---

---

1

1

---

Cincinnati

---

3

2

---

6

---

---

---

2

---

DeKalb[6]

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---

4

---

12

---

---

---

---

2

Louisville

---

2

2

---

6

---

---

---

2

---

Mound City

---

3

3

---

3

---

2

---

3

---

Pittsburg

---

2

3

---

6

---

---

---

2

---

Tuscumbia

3

---

---

---

---

2

---

---

---

---

Indianola

2

2

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

Choctaw

---

3

---

---

---

1

---

---

2

---

Lafayette

2

4

---

---

---

2

---

---

---

---

Chillicothe

2

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

Black Hawk

--

--

--

--

4

--

--

--

2

--

 


RETURNS OF THE ARMAMENT OF FORT MORGAN, MOBILE HARBOR.

 

 

January 1863

January 1864

Confederate return, January 1864

Report of US Ordnance Officer, October 1864

X-inch Columbiad

5

7

5

7

VIII-inch Columbiad

5

1

1

3[7]

32-pounder smoothbore

30

18

16

11

24-pounder smoothbore

4

---

4

---

VIII-inch rifle

---

2

2

2

VII-inch rifle

1

---

---

2

6.5-inch rifle

3

4

7

7

5.82-inch rifle

---

4

3

---

30-pounder rifle, R.P.P.

1

---

---

1

24-pounder rifle (Dahlgren)

---

---

---

1

Whitworth (caliber 2.71)

1

---

---

1

Rifles (caliber not given)

2

---

---

---

Water Battery

X-inch

4

Not given

Not separately given

Not mentioned

VIII-inch

1

6.5-inch rifle

2

 

The return for January. 1863, is taken from a captured Confederate plan showing position of the, Tins at that date, concerning which Captain M. D. McAlester, U. S. Engineers, says that he found some changes, but not material, when be inspected the works within a week after the surrender, and while nothing had yet been disturbed. January, 1864, is from reports of deserters to officer of United States fleet, verified by reconnoissances from tugs on clear days and by reports of spies. The indications seem to be that the lighter guns were partially withdrawn, perhaps for the landward defenses of Mobile, and their place supplied by heavier and rifled guns. The estimate in the text gives for all the forts one hundred cannon, including flank howitzers. General Grant's report as Commander-in-Chief, December,1864, says one hundred and four pieces of artillery were taken, there were a few field pieces.

 



[1] Batteries of Katahdin, Kennebec, Kineo, Owasco, Pinola, Sciota, Winona, and Wisahickon were the same as of Cayuga. The Itasca had a X-inch instead of XI-inch.

[2] The Jackson carried also one VI-inch Sawyer rifle.

[3] The other vessels not having been North are assumed toi have had the same batteries as in the preceding April.

[4] The batteries in January, 1862 are given in the text.

[5] Rams.

[6] The DeKalb’s battery was changed before the end of the month. See text.

[7] Two of these are inventoried as “smoothbore Brooke, double-banded,” which seems unlikely.



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