USS Sumter was a 525-ton sidewheel paddle steamer captured by the Union Navy during the Union blockade of the American Civil War. Sumter originally was...

USS Sumter may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: USS Sumter (1862), the former CSS General Sumter, a cottonclad ram captured in...

CSS Sumter a Confederate Navy vessel in the American Civil War USS Sumter (1862), the former CSS General Sumter, a cottonclad ram captured in 1862 USS Sumter (APA-52)...

The first USS Montauk was a single-turreted Passaic-class monitor in the Union Navy during the American Civil War. It saw action throughout the war. It...

Fort Sumter is a sea fort built on an artificial island near Charleston, South Carolina to defend the region from a naval invasion. It was built after...

Battle of Fort Sumter (also the Attack on Fort Sumter or the Fall of Fort Sumter) (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston...

Sumter remained at anchor in Gibraltar watched by a succession of U.S. Navy warships, among them the sloop-of-war USS Kearsarge and the gunboat USS Chippewa...

April, Patapsco joined eight other ironclads in a vigorous attack on Fort Sumter, and received 47 hits from Confederate gunfire during that day. Beginning...

USS Keokuk was an experimental ironclad screw steamer of the United States Navy named for the city of Keokuk, Iowa. She was laid down in New York City...

USS Galena was a wooden-hulled broadside ironclad built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. The ship was initially assigned to the...

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steam frigate USS Merrimack. Virginia was one of the participants in the Battle of Hampton Roads, opposing the Union's USS Monitor in March 1862. The battle...

August 1862, with Commander William Rogers Taylor in command. Housatonic was one of four sister ships which included USS Adirondack, USS Ossipee, and USS Juniata...

USS Monitor was an ironclad warship built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War and completed in early 1862, the first such ship commissioned...

Hampshire on 5 February 1862 for the coast of Spain. She then sailed to Gibraltar to join the blockade of Confederate raider CSS Sumter, forcing the ship's...

USS Cairo /ˈkeɪroʊ/ is the lead ship of the City-class casemate ironclads built at the beginning of the American Civil War to serve as river gunboats...

USS Merrimack, also improperly Merrimac, was a steam frigate, best known as the hull upon which the ironclad warship CSS Virginia was constructed during...

She sailed from Hull on 28 May 1862 for London to load cargo for Beaufort, North Carolina. Captured by Union gunboat USS Unadilla while attempting to run...

Gibraltar on 30 September 1862 to meet USS Kearsarge and then directed to Algeciras, Morocco to watch the Confederate raider Sumter. During this period, Release...

Portsmouth Navy Yard, 1859 USS Cumberland (right) with the frigate USS Congress at Newport News Point, 1862 Wreck of USS Cumberland, 1862 List of sailing frigates...

USS Daffodil was a side-wheel steamer in the United States Navy. Daffodil was built as Jonas Smith by B. C. Terry at Keyport, New Jersey, in 1862. She...

book titled "A Year on a Monitor and the Destruction of Fort Sumter" by Alvah F Hunter. In 1862 Hunter enlisted in the Union Navy, with difficulty as he was...

USS Sumpter was a steamship in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Sumpter or Sumter, ex-Atlanta, ex-Parker Vein, was built in 1853 by...

USS Congress was a United States Navy frigate in operation between 1842 and 1862. The fourth Navy ship to carry that name Congress, she served in the Mediterranean...

USS New Ironsides was a wooden-hulled broadside ironclad built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. The ship spent most of her career...

USS Vermont was originally intended to be a ship of the line for the U.S. Navy when laid down in 1818, but was not commissioned until 1862, when she was...

of the ironclads, between USS Monitor and CSS Virginia at the Battle of Hampton Roads. The battle took place on March 8, 1862, and lasted for several hours...

as a blockade runner. [CSS Sumter is not the CSS General Sumter cottonclad river gunboat (1861–1862), then named USS Sumter on capture and deployed in...

command of the ram fleet. On December 12, 1862, the Queen of the West was one of the ships that accompanied the USS Cairo up the Yazoo River. The Cairo was...

USS Brockenborough was a sloop captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy primarily as a ship's tender and...