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 Marmora was a sternwheel steamer that served in the Union Navy from 1862 to 1865, during the American Civil War. Built in 1862 at Monongahela, Pennsylvania...

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 struck by a 'torpedo'...

USS Alexandria was a side-wheel steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a dispatch boat in...

built at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1862—was purchased by the Navy at that city on 20 November 1862; and was commissioned at Cairo, Illinois, on 12 January 1863...

USS Chillicothe was an ironclad river gunboat of the United States Navy. She was named for the capital of Ohio from 1803 to 1810. Chillicothe was laid...

Brilliant sailed from St. Louis, Missouri, September 25, 1862 to join the Mississippi Squadron at Cairo, Illinois. Throughout the Civil War she operated very...

Tennessee, by USS Pittsburgh 9 June 1862. She was transferred to the Union Navy by the War Department; and after outfitting and repairs at Cairo, Illinois...

February 1862 at Cerro Gordo, Tennessee, by the Union gunboats Conestoga, Tyler and Lexington, commanded by Captain Seth Ledyard Phelps. Converted at Cairo, Illinois...

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...

Dolsen, a side-wheel steamer, was captured 14 June 1862 by the gunboat USS Mound City and the tug USS Spitfire on the White River during the St. Charles...

rafts. In January 1862, General Ulysses S. Grant occupied the city, and had Fort Defiance constructed to protect the confluence. Cairo became an important...

The first USS Myrtle was a steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. It was used as a tugboat and as a dispatch boat assigned...

September 1862 and commissioned at Cairo, Illinois, 25 December, Comdr. LeRoy Fitch in command. Judge Torrence departed Cairo 14 March 1862 to supply...

"Sundew 1944". US Coast Guard Cutter History. Retrieved 3 October 2016. "USS Cairo Gunboat & Museum". National Park Service. Retrieved 18 September 2016...

Cairo, Illinois, 30 September 1862. Assigned to Rear Adm. David Dixon Porter’s Mississippi Squadron, Dauntless was renamed Mignonette 19 October 1862...

United States Department of War. Carondelet was commissioned 15 January 1862, at Cairo, Illinois, U.S. Navy Commander Henry A. Walke in command, and reported...

ironclad gunboats USS Benton, USS Cairo, USS Carondelet, USS Louisville, and USS St. Louis in the Battle of Memphis on 6 June 1862. Engaging the Confederate...

became USS General Bragg. Following General Bragg's capture by the Union's Western Flotilla, she was transferred to the War Department 30 September 1862. Her...

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...

Indiana; purchased by the Navy at Cairo, Illinois, November 24, 1862 as New Uncle Sam; commissioned December 6, 1862, Lieutenant Commander K. R. Breese...

wooden-hulled stern wheel steamer built in 1862 at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, was taken over by the Navy on 1 April 1863 at Cairo, Illinois; commissioned there on...

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...

destroy the explosive devices. The next morning, accompanied by USS Cairo, USS Pittsburgh, and USS Queen of the West, they returned up the Yazoo to destroy the...

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...

campaign to capture Vicksburg late in 1862. On a scouting mission up the Yazoo River on December 12, 1862, USS Cairo struck two "torpedoes" (now called mines)...

transferred to the Navy at Cairo, Illinois, 30 September 1862; and commissioned 1 October 1862. Mistletoe served as a tug at the Cairo Naval Base until joining...

USS Fern was a tugboat acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Her task was to tow other ships and barges, and to provide other duties...

USS Glide was a sternwheel steamer that served as a tinclad warship during the American Civil War. Built in 1862, the Union Navy purchased her for military...

chief. Tuscumbia was built in 1862 at Cincinnati, Ohio, by Joseph Brown; launched on 2 December; and commissioned at Cairo, Illinois; on 12 March 1863,...