CSS Tuscarora was a sidewheel steamer that briefly served as a gunboat in the Confederate States Navy at the beginning of the American Civil War. She was about 100 feet (30 m) long, displaced 400 short tons (357 long tons), and was manned by a 25-man crew. The vessel was purchased in 1861 from the Southern Steamship Company by Confederate authorities in New Orleans, Louisiana. Armed with two cannons, Tuscarora was engaged in the Battle of the Head of Passes on October 12, 1861. Ordered up the Mississippi River to Columbus, Kentucky, in November, she was destroyed on November 23, 1861, when a fire of unknown origin started in her boilers and spread to the ship's munitions.
CSSTuscarora was a sidewheel steamer that briefly served as a gunboat in the Confederate States Navy at the beginning of the American Civil War. She...
Tuscarora may refer to the following: Tuscarora people Federal Power Commission v. Tuscarora Indian Nation (1960) Tuscarora language, an Iroquoian language...
in command. Later that month, Tuscarora sailed for Southampton, England, under orders to capture or sink the cruiser CSS Nashville. Nashville had run the...
CSS Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built in 1862 for the Confederate States Navy. The vessel was built in Birkenhead on the River Mersey opposite Liverpool...
CSS Winslow was a sidewheel steamer that was used as a gunboat in the early stages of the American Civil War. Launched in 1846 as Joseph E. Coffee or...
of New Orleans. The fleet consisted of CSS McRae, the flagship CSSTuscarora, CSS Livingston, CSS Calhoun, CSS Jackson, and Ivy. Ivy was the fastest ship...
effective naval force. During the battle, Monarch rammed the cottonclad rams CSS Colonel Lovell and General Beauregard. The Union forces took Memphis, Tennessee...
John W. Dunnington, who had previously served on the gunboats CSS McRae and CSSTuscarora. After her commissioning, she was sent up the Mississippi River...
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