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    USS Richmond was a wooden steam sloop in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Richmond was launched on 26 January 1860 by the Norfolk...
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  • named USS Richmond for the capital of Virginia. USS Richmond (1798) was a brig, launched and purchased for the Navy in 1798. She was sold in 1801. USS Richmond (1860)...
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    1860 USS Lexington (1825) USS Louisiana (1812) USS Marion (1839) USS Maryland (1799) USS Natchez (1827) USS Ohio (1812), captured 12 August 1814 USS Ontario (1813)...
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    September 17, 1858. He received the Medal of Honor while serving on the USS Richmond (1860) for his "coolness and close attention to duty in looking out for...
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    1st Session, Mis. Doc. No. 86 (May 11, 1860), p.106 Josefina Pla: The British in Paraguay, 1850-1870, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd., 1976, p. 97  This...
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  • an orderly sergeant assigned to the Marine Detachment aboard the USS Richmond (1860) when it was sent to fight in the American Civil War during the Battle...
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    Admiral David G. Farragut Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 69794 USS RICHMOND (1860-1919) v t e v t e Biography portal American Civil War portal United...
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    USS Malvern (eventually renamed Ella and Annie) was a large steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was then used by the...
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    United States portal Culture of Virginia Richmond Police Department USS Richmond, 3 ships Category:People from Richmond, Virginia Annual records from the airport...
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    USS Sangamon was a Passaic-class ironclad monitor constructed for the Union Navy during the second year of the American Civil War where she operated in...
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    USS Merrimack, also improperly Merrimac, was a steam frigate, best known as the hull upon which the ironclad warship CSS Virginia was constructed during...
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  • 2016. George P. Ryan Journal of the U.S.S. Plymouth, 1860, MS 9 and George M. Bache Journal of the U.S.S. Plymouth, 1860, MS 10 held by Special Collections...
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  • USS Isaac N. Seymour, also referred to variously as Seymour, I. N. Seymour and J. N. Seymour, was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy for use as a gunboat...
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    E-06Orderly Sergeant USS Richmond (1860) USS Richmond (1860) Fort Morgan, Battle of Mobile Bay, Alabama Aug 5, 1864 On board USS Richmond (1860) during action...
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    hands; the resulting fire destroyed much of central Richmond. In the 1860 United States Census, Richmond was the 25th largest urban area in the United States...
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    called the Richmond Howitzers into state service and sent them down the James River to stop the USS Pawnee, allegedly en route to shell Richmond. They were...
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    against the Southern capital, Richmond, Virginia. On 8 May, Seminole joined USS Monitor, USS Dacotah, USS Naugatuck, and USS Susquehanna in shelling Confederate...
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    Montevideo in the Uruguayan Civil War. Atkinson transferred to the USS Richmond in September 1860 and served on that ship as a yeoman during the American Civil...
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    Line section of the state. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Augusta–Richmond County had a 2020 population of 202,081, not counting the unconsolidated...
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  • USS Arletta was a schooner acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat and, at times, an ammunition...
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    to a head when Abraham Lincoln, who opposed slavery's expansion, won the 1860 presidential election. Seven Southern slave states responded to Lincoln's...
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    United States history concerns events from 1860 to 1899. April 3, 1860 – Pony Express begins. November 6 – 1860 United States presidential election: Abraham...
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  • USS Sallie Wood was a 256-ton steamer captured by the Union Navy during the early years of the American Civil War. She assigned by the Union Navy during...
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    The first USS Lehigh was a Passaic-class monitor launched 17 January 1863 by Reaney, Son & Archbold, Chester, Pennsylvania, under a subcontract from John...
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    July 1857 and April 1860, before joining the newly commissioned steam sloop Richmond which sailed for the Mediterranean in October 1860, finally returning...
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    Confederacy in Richmond, VA official website The American Civil War Museum US Navy Library on USS Monitor Naval History and Heritage Command: USS Monitor Video...
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    Occoquan and Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Richmond, Virginia, on 4 October 1862. On 21 February 1863, USS Dragon and Thomas Freeborn engaged a Confederate...
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    damaged by war action, including Atlanta (with an 1860 population of 9,600), Charleston, Columbia, and Richmond (with prewar populations of 40,500, 8,100, and...
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    1862, against the USS Monitor. In 1862, the Peninsula Campaign, led by General George B. McClellan, was a Union attempt to take Richmond, beginning from...
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    Tredegar Iron Works (category Richmond, Virginia in the American Civil War)
    The Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia, was the biggest ironworks in the Confederacy during the American Civil War, and a significant factor in...
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