Draft:List of ironclad warships of the American Civil War
Appearance
Ship | Completed | Commissioned | Significant Events | Fate | Country | Notes | Image |
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CSS Albemarle[1] | January 1863 | 17 April 1864 | Battle of Albemarle Sound | 27 October 1864 sunk by spar torpedo, captured, raised, and sold | Confederacy | named for an estuary in North Carolina | |
CSS/USS Atlanta[2][3] | 9 May 1861 | 22 November 1862 | none | Sold to Haiti, 4 May 1869. Lost at sea, December 1869 | Confederacy, Union, United Kingdom | Formerly Fingal (UK) | |
USS Chillicothe[4] | unknown | 5 September 1862 | expeditions to the White River, capture of Fort Hindman, Yazoo Pass Expedition, Red River Campaign | Sold, 29 November 1865, Destroyed by fire, September 1872 | Union | named for the capital of Ohio from 1803 to 1810 | |
USS Choctaw[5][4] | 1853 | 23 March 1863 | Battle of Milliken's Bend, capture of Fort DeRussy | Sold, 28 March 1866 | Union | ||
USS Lafayette | 1848 | 27 February 1863 | Battle of Vicksburg, Red River Campaign | Sold, 28 March 1866 | Union | ||
CSS Nashville | mid-1863 | 15 September 1864 | Battle of Mobile Bay | Surrendered to U.S. forces; sold 22 November 1867 | Confederacy | ||
USS Osage | 13 January 1863 | 10 July 1863 | Red River Campaign, capture of Fort DeRussy, Battle of Blair's Landing, Battle of Spanish Fort | Sunk by mine, 29 March 1865, Raised and sold, 22 November 1867 | Union | ||
CSS/USS Tennessee | February 1863 | 16 February 1864 | Battle of Mobile Bay | Sold for scrap, 27 November 1867 | Confederacy, Union | Captured by Union forces at Battle of Mobile Bay | |
CSS Texas | January 1865 | Unknown | none | Sold, 15 October 1867 | Confederacy | ||
USS Tuscumbia[6] | 2 December 1862 | 12 March 1863 | operations against Vicksburg, Mississippi, recapture of Fort Heiman | Sold, 29 November 1865 | Union | sold at auction at Mound City to W. K. Adams | |
CSS Virginia | 7 March 1862 | 17 Febuary 1862 | Battle of Hampton Roads | scuttled 11 May 1862 | Confederacy | first steam-powered ironclad warship built by the Confederate States Navy |
- ^ Bisbee, Saxon T. (2018). Engines of Rebellion: Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering in the American Civil War
- ^ "Atlanta". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command. Archived from the original on 8 October 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
- ^ "The Yards". acumfae Govan. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
- ^ a b Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
- ^ Miller, Francis Trevelyan, Robert S. Lanier, and Henry Wysham Lanier. The Photographic History of the Civil War: Thousands of Scenes Photographed, 1861–1865. In Ten Volumes, 1911.
- ^ Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year: 1862.