THE NAVY IN THE CIVIL WAR
Published 1883, 1885

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VOLUME II.
THE ATLANTIC COAST.

BY
DANIEL AMMEN
REAR-ADMIRAL, U.S. NAVY

APPENDIX.


I.
Names of Vessels, Character of Armament, and Officers Commanding them in the Attack on Port Royal, November 7, 1861. Flag-Officer Francis S. Dupont and Captain Charles H. Davis, Chief of Staff, with flag on board of the Wabash.

 

Name of Vessel

Name of Officer Commanding

Battery

Wabash

Commander C.R.P. Rodgers

28 IX-inch, 14 VIII-inch, 2 X-inch pivots

Susquehanna

Captain J.L. Lardner

15 VIII-inch guns

Mohican

Commander S.W. Godon

2 XI-inch pivots, 4 32-pounders

Seminole

Commander John P. Gillis

1 XI-inch pivot, 4 32-pounders

Pocahontas

Commander Percival Drayton

1 XI-inch pivot, 4 32-pounders

Pawnee

Lt-Commanding B.H. Wyman

8 IX-inch pivots, 2 12-pounder rifles

Unadilla

Lt-Commanding Napoleon Collins

1 XI-inch pivot, 1 20-pdr rifle, 2 24-pdr howitzers

Ottawa

Lt-Commanding T.H. Stevens

1 XI-inch pivot, 1 20-pdr rifle, 2 24-pdr howitzers

Pembina

Lt-Commanding J.P. Bankhead

1 XI-inch pivot, 1 20-pdr rifle, 2 24-pdr howitzers

Seneca

Lt-Commanding Daniel Ammen

1 XI-inch pivot, 1 20-pdr rifle, 2 24-pdr howitzers

Vandalia (sailing sloop)

Commander F.L. Haggerty

4 VIII-inch, 16 32-pounders

Isaac Smith[1]

Lt-Commanding J.W.A. Nicholson

1 30-pounder rifle, afterward 8 VIII-inch

Bienville

Commander Charles Steedman

8 32-pounders

Augusta

Commander E.G. Parrott

8 32-pounders

Penguin

Lt-Commanding T.A. Budd

4 32-pounders

Curlew

Lt-Commanding P.G. Watmough

6 32-pounders, 1 30-pounder rifle

R.B. Forbes

Lt-Commanding H.S. Newcomb

2 32-pounders

 


II.
Ironclad Attack on Fortifications of Charleston H arbor, April 7, 1863
.[2]

 

Name of Vessel

Kind and
Caliber of Armament

Projectiles Fired

Nearest Approach to Sumter or Moultrie

Times Hit

Remarks

Shot

Shot

New Ironsides

2 150-pdr rifles,

14 XI-inch

1

7

---

---

1,000 yards

Not stated

Confederates say the New ironsides was hit 65 times

Montauk

1 XV-inch,

1 XI-inch

10

16

---

1

700 yards

14

 

Passaic

1 XV-inch,

1 XI-inch

---

2

9

2

880 yards or less

35

One gun temporarily disabled

Weehawken

1 XV-inch,

1 XI-inch

---

---

11

15

Not given

53

One gun temporarily disabled

Patapsco

1 XV-inch,

1 150-pdr rifle

---

---

5

5

600 yards

47

Rifle temporarily disabled

Catskill

1 XV-inch,

1 XI-inch

---

---

10

12

600 yards

20

 

Nantucket

1 XV-inch,

1 XI-inch

---

---

3

12

750 yards

51

One gun temporarily disabled

Nahant

1 XV-inch,

1 XI-inch

3

4

4

4

500 yards

36

Turret disabled for one day; not in good order for one month

Keokuk

2 XI-inch

---

3

550 yards

90

Totally disabled; sunk next day off Morris Island

 

Vessels, 9; guns in action, 23; fires, 139; range from 500 to 2,100 yards; fuses for shells cut for flights of from 3½ to 15 seconds; charges: XV-inch, 35 pounds; XI-inch 15 to 20 pounds; rifles, 46 pounds. Moultrie received 12 shots, Wagner 2, Sumter the remainder, which was struck 55 times.

 

Note.―Colonel Rhett, commanding Fort Sumter, reports that no monitor approached nearer than 1,000 yards; the Keokuk to within 900 yards; Ironsides, 1,700 yards. Beauregard reports that the fleet did not come nearer than 1,100 yards to outer batteries, save the Keokuk, which drifted to within 900 yards of Sumter. Engineer Echols reports nearest approach of monitors, 900 yards; of Ironsides to Moultrie, 1,700 yards, and to Sumter, 2,000 yards.

 


III.
Return of Guns and Mortars at Forts and Batteries in Charleston Harbor engaged with the Ironclads, April 7, 1863, together with Return of Ammunition Expended, and Statement of Casualties.

 

Fort or Battery

 X-inch Columbiad

IX-inch Dahlgren

VII-inch Brooke rifle

VII-inch Columbiad

42-pounder, rifled

32-pounder, rifled

32-pounder, smooth

X-inch mortars

Grand total

Fort Johnson

---

---

--

---

---

---

---

1

1

Fort Sumter

4

2

2

8

7

1

13

7

44

Fort Moultrie

---

---

---

9

---

5

5

2

21

Battery Bee

5

---

---

1

---

---

---

---

6

Battery Beauregard

---

---

---

1

---

1

---

---

2

Battery Cumming’s Point

1

1

---

---

---

---

---

---

2

Battery Wagner

---

---

---

---

---

1

---

---

1

  Total

10

3

2

19

7

8

18

10

77

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ammunition

  Shot

385

80

86

731

140

321

343

---

---

  Shell

---

---

---

5

---

45

---

93

---

 

Total shot and shell

2,229

Total pounds of powder

21,093

Casualties in action

3 killed, 11 wounded

Number of shots fired by fleet

151

Number of shot struck vessels

520

Of shots fired by fleet, all but 24 were directed at Sumter

 

NOTE.―This information is compiled from reports of General Beauregard, May 24, 1863; General Ripley, April 13, 1863; Colonel Rhett, April 13, 1863; Major Harris, Chief Engineer, dated April 28, 1863; Major Echols, Engineer, dated April 9, 1863; General Trapier, dated April 13, 1863; and from tabulated statements accompanying the reports of General Ripley and Major Echols.

 


IV.
Extract from “Table of Effect of Projectiles on the Walls of Fort Sumter,” Report of major William H. Echols, Confederate States Engineer, transmitted to Major D.B. Harris, Chief Engineer of the Department, with his Report, dated April 9, 1863.

 

No.

Projectile
(in.)

Penetration
(ft. in.)

Remarks

3

---

2’3”

Embrasure “A.” Exterior concrete keystone and interior embrasure arch knocked out; masonry cracked.

4

15

0’9”

Assisted No. 3; spent.

5

11

1’0”

Penetrated concrete and new masonry facing.

9

3 shots

2’6”

One 15-inch, two others not known; parapet wall cracked 25 feet in length; serious damage, perhaps by exploding shell.

10

15

2’3”

Interior arch of embrasure “B” dislocated; masonry between piers and embrasure badly shaken and projected.

12

15

1’6”

Shook masonry.

15

---

1’6”

Interior embrasure “C” arch broken; masonry cracked.

18

---

1’6”

Masonry shaken.

19

---

3’0”

Exploding shell on pier; not much internal injury.

21

---

1’6”

Masonry around embrasure “D” badly cracked and projecting inside.

22

15

5’0”

Penetrated, striking head of arch and thrown upward, tearing away a quantity of masonry, not seriously damaging body of masonry; exploded in casemate.

23

11

5’0”

Same effect as No. 22; destroyed embrasure “E.”

24

---

2’6”

Not seriously damaging body of masonry.

25

15

5’0”

Same effect as No. 22; destroyed embrasure “F;” exploded in parade.

27

---

1’4”

No serious damage.

29

---

2’4”

Serious damage; wall not much cracked.

31

15

1’0”

Knocked off one foot of angle.

35

---

1’6”

Shook masonry.

36

15

1’3”

Broke and projected in sole embrasure “G.”

41

---

2’1”

Exploding shell.

48

---

2’4”

Exploding shell cracked parapet wall.

49

---

---

Knocked out iron embrasure slab 1 foot wide, 6 inches thick, 3 feet long; indented it 1½ inches, and broke it in three places; shook masonry.

52

---

---

Entered western quarters and exploded, damaging walls.

54

---

---

Demolished 10-inch Columbiad carriage and chassis in southwest angle.

 

NOTE.―Three shots in all struck or entered quarters. A sketch by Major Echols, showing the effect of these shots, will be found in Volume XIV of Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.

 


IX.[3]
Names of Vessels, Officers Commanding them, and Armaments in the Attack on the Defenses of Roanoke Island, February 7, 1862, and Operations following at Elizabeth City and Newbern in which many of thee Vessels were engaged.

 

Name of Vessel

Commanders of Vessels

Armament

Stars and Stripes

Lt-Commanding Reed Werden

4 VIII-inch, 1 30-pounder rifled

Louisiana

Lt-Commanding Alexander Murray

1 VIII-inch, 3 32-pdrs, 1 12-pdr rifled

Hetzel

Lt-Commanding H.K. Davenport

1 IX-inch, 1 80-pdr rifled

Delaware

Lt-Commanding L.P. Quackenbush

1 IX-inch,1 32-pdr, 1 12-pdr rifled

Commodore Perry

Lt-Commanding C.W. Flusser

1 100-pdr, 4 IX-inch, 1 12-pdr rifled

Valley City

Lt-Commanding A.C. Chaplin

4 32-pdrs, 1 12-pdr rifled.

Underwriter

Lt-Commanding W.N. Jeffers

1 VIII-inch, 1 80-pdr rifled, 1 12-pdr rifled

Commodore Barney

Lt-Commanding R.T. Renshaw

4 IX-inch, 1 32-pdr, 1 12-pdr rifled

Hunchback

Lt-Commanding E.R. Calhoun

3 IX-inch, 1 100-pdr rifled

Southfield

Lt-Commanding C.F.W. Behm

3 IX-inch, 1 100-pdr rifled

Morse

Acting-Master Peter Hayes

2 IX-inch

Brincker

Acting-Master J.E. Giddings

1 30-pounder rifled

Lockwood

Acting-Master G.W. Graves

1 80-pdr rifled, 1 12-pdr rifled

Whitehead

Acting-Master French

1 IX-inch

Seymour

Acting-Master Wells

1 30-pdr, 1 12-pdr rifled

Ceres

Acting-Master McDiarmid

1 30-pdr rifled, 1 32-pdr

Putnam

Acting-Master Hotchkiss

1 20-pdr rifled

Shawsheen

Acting-Master Woodward

2 20-pdrs rifled

Granite

Master’s Mate Boomer

1 32-pdr

 

X.
Names of Commanding Officers and the Batteries of Vessels that engaged the ram Albemarle, May 5, 1864.

 

Name of Vessel

Commanding Officer

Battery

Shots Expended

Casualties

Mattabesett[4]

Commander John C. Fieber

2 100-pdr Parrott rifles

4 IX-inch Dahlgrens

4 24-pounders

2 12-pound howitzers

27 solid shot

23 solid shot

1 shrapnel

1 shell

3 killed

5 wounded

Sassacus

Commander F.A. Roe

2 100-pounder Parrott rifles

4 IX-inch Dahlgrens

2 24-pound howitzers

2 20-pound howitzers

2 12-pound howitzers

(Not given)

1 killed

19 wounded

Wyalusing

Commander W.W. Queen

2 100-pounder Parrott rifles

4 IX-inch Dahlgrens

2 24-pound howitzers

2 12-pd howitzers (1 rifled)

47 solid, 28 shell

37 solid, 33 shell

27 shrapnel, 18 shell

---

1 killed

Miami

Acting Volunteer Lt C. A. French

1 100-pounder Parrott rifle

6 IX-inch Dahlgrens

1 24-pound howitzer

41 solid shot
76 solid shot

---

---

Whitehead

Acting Ensign G.W. Barrett

1 100-pounder Parrott rifle

3 24-pound howitzer

17 solid shot
---

---

Commodore Hull

Acting Master Francis Josselyn

2 30-pounder Parrott rifles

4 24-pound howitzers

60 shell
24 shell

---

Ceres

Acting Master H.H. Foster

2 20-pdr Parrott rifles (pivot)

---

---

 


XI.
List of Ordnance left on Morris Island on the night of its Evacuation, September 6, 1863.

 

Battery Wagner

Two X-inch Columbiads (1 dismounted and broken, 1 serviceable); 1 X-inch mortar, serviceable; 2 VIII-inch shell guns (1 serviceable, I injured by shell and carriage disabled); 2 VIII-inch siege howitzers (1 dismounted and broken to pieces); 1 VIII-inch S.C. howitzer, serviceable; 2 32-pounder smooth-bores, serviceable; 1 42-pounder carronade, serviceable; 1 VIII-inch siege mortar, brass, spiked with friction tube two days before evacuation; 3 32-pounder carronades, serviceable; 2 12-pounder howitzers, serviceable. Total, 17.

 

Battery Gregg

Two X-inch Columbiads (1 carriage injured and the other serviceable); 1 IX-inch Dahlgren, serviceable; 1 X-inch S.C. mortar, serviceable; 2 12-pounder howitzers, serviceable. Total, 6.

 


XII.
Vessels Engaged in the Second Bombardment of Fort Fisher; their Armament, ammunition Expended, and Casualties in Action, January 14 and 15, 1865, Rear-Admiral D. D. Porter, U.S. Navy, Commanding Fleet.

 

LINE NO. 1

 

Names of Vessel

Commanders

Batteries

Shells Expended

Killed

Wounded

Missing

Brooklyn

Alden

2 100-pounders, rifled

2 60-pounders, rifled

20 IX-inch shell guns

Not given

2

12

0

Mohican

Ammen

1 100-pounder, rifled

2 30-pounders, rifled

6 IX-inch shell guns

---

17

419

12

0

0

Tacony

Truxtun

2 XII-inch

4 IX-inch

309

361

0

0

0

Kansas

Watmough

1 100-pounder, rifled

1 30-pounder, rifled

2 IX-inch shell guns

---

91

394

0

1

0

Yantic

Harris

1 100-pounder, rifled

1 30-pounder, rifled

2 IX-inch shell guns

---

23

202

2

2

0

Unadilla

Ramsay

1 XI-inch shell gun

1 20-pounder, rifled

358

45

0

0

0

Huron

Selfridge

1 XI-inch shell gun

1 30-pounder, rifled

300

---

0

5

0

Maumee

Chandler

1 100-pounder, rifled

1 30-pounder, rifled

2 32-pounders

117

14

206

0

0

0

Pequot

Braine

1 150-pounder, rifled

1 30-pounder, rifled

6 32-pounders

146

33

319

3

5

0

 

Pawtuxet

Spotts

1 100-pounder, rifled

1 XI-inch

4 IX-inch shell guns

42

116

305

0

0

0

Seneca

Sicard

1 XI-inch shell gun

1 20-pounder, rifled

222

30

0

0

0

Pontoosuc

Temple

2 100-pounders, rifled

4 IX-inch shell guns

2 20-pounders

---

313

5

0

7

0

Nereus

Howell

1 60-pounder, rifled

2 30-pounders, rifled

6 32-pounders

94

122

324

3

3

0

 


LINE NO. 2

 

Names of Vessel

Commanders

Batteries

Shells Expended

Killed

Wounded

Missing

Minnesota

Lanman

1 150-pounder, rifled

4 100-pounders, rifled

1 XI-inch shell gun

42 IX-inch shell guns

89

---

70

1495

13

23

0

Colorado

Thatcher

1 150-pounder, rifled

1 XI-inch shell gun

46 IX-inch shell guns

---

80

756

3

14

0

Wabash

Smith

1 150-pounder, rifled

42 IX-inch shell guns

154

1781

0

12

0

Susquehanna

Godon

2 150-pounders, rifled

12 IX-inch shell guns

215

643

3

15

8

Powhatan

Schenck

3 100-pounders, rifled

1 XI-inch shell gun

14 IX-inch shell guns

Not given

3

19

7

Juniata

Phelps

1 100-pounders, rifled

2 30-pounders, rifled

6 VIII-inch shell guns

---

238

765

5

10

0

Shenandoah

Ridgley

1 150-pounder, rifled

1 30-pounder, rifled

2 XI-inch, rifled

---

30

287

6

0

5

Ticonderoga

Stedman

1 30-pounder, rifled

12 IX-inch shell guns

29

523

1

6

0

Vanderbilt

Pickering

2 100-pounders, rifled

2 30-pounders, rifled

12 IX-inch shell guns

18

65

87

0

0

0

Mackinaw

Beaumont

1 XI-inch shell gun

6 IX-inch shell guns

190

749

0

2

0

Tuscarora

Frailey

1 100-pounders, rifled

2 30-pounders, rifled

6 VIII-inch shell guns

53

47

114

3

12

0

 


LINE NO. 3

 

Names of Vessel

Commanders

Batteries

Shells Expended

Killed

Wounded

Missing

Santiago de Cuba

Glisson

3 30-pounders, rifled

5 32-pounder shell guns

73

106

1

9

0

Fort Jackson

Sands

1 100-pounder, rifled

2 30-pounders, rifled

8 IX-inch shell guns

Not given

1

10

0

Osceola

Clitz

1 100-pounder, rifled

1 XI-inch shell gun

4 IX-inch shell guns

175

106

38

0

0

0

Sassacus

Davis

2 100-pounders, rifled

2 20-pounders, rifled

4 IX-inch shell gun

145

119

98

0

0

0

Chippewa

Potter

1 20-pounder, rifled

1 IX-inch shell guns

---

74

0

0

0

Cuyler

Caldwell

2 32-pounder shell guns

3 30-pounders, rifled

6

43

0

0

0

Maratanza

Young

1 100-pounder, rifled

1 IX-inch shell gun

Not given

0

0

0

Rhode Island

Trenchard

2 30-pounders, rifled

1 IX-inch shell gun

8 VIII-inch shell guns

69

94

136

8

2

0

Monticello

Cushing

1 100-pounder, rifled

3 30-pounders, rifled

2 IX-inch shell guns

115

3

144

4

4

0

Alabama

Langthorne

2 30-pounders, rifled

1 IX-inch shell gun

6 32-pounders

Not given

0

0

0

Montgomery

Dunn

1 30pounder, rifled

1 X-inch shell gun

4 VIII-inch shell guns

192

158

230

2

4

0

Iosco

Guest

2 100-pounders, rifled

4 IX-inch shell guns

200

358

2

12

0

 

 

ARMOR-PLATED VESSELS.

 

Names of Vessel

Commanders

Batteries

Shells Expended

Killed

Wounded

Missing

New Ironsides

Radford

2 150-pounders, rifled

2 60-pounders, rifled

14 XI-inch shell guns

971 total

0

0

0

Monadnock

Parrott

4 XV-inch shell guns

441

0

0

0

Canonicus

Belknap

2 XV-inch shell guns

297

0

3

0

Mahopac

Weaver

2 XV-inch shell guns

153

0

0

0

Saugus

Calhoun

2 XV-inch shell guns

212

0

1

0

Malvern (flagship)

-----

---

---

3

1

0

 

Vessels in reserve line not given.  The total of killed is 74; wounded, 289; missing, 20. The total of shells thrown from the vessels, from which returns are in the Department, 18,716. The Brooklyn and Susquehanna probably threw 2,000 and ten smaller vessels 1,000, making a probable total of 21,716 during the second bombardment. The number of shells thrown during the first bombardment was probably about 15,000.

 



[1] Vessels appearing above the Isaac Smith were built for war purposes; the Smith and subsequent vessels were purchased.

[2] Table compiled from official reports.

[3] Appendix Sections V-VIII omitted, as they detail Union and Confederate Army troop strengths in the Departments of North Carolina and South Carolina/Georgia/Florida throughout the war.

[4] Flagship of Captain Melancton Smith


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