Author: W. Craig Gaines
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807134244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
On the evening of February 2, 1864, Confederate Commander John Taylor Wood led 250 sailors in two launches and twelve boats to capture the USS Underwriter, a side-wheel steam gunboat anchored on the Neuse River near New Bern, North Carolina. During the ensuing fifteen-minute battle, nine Union crewmen lost their lives, twenty were wounded, and twenty-six fell into enemy hands. Six Confederates were captured and several wounded as they stripped the vessel, set it ablaze, and blew it up while under fire from Union-held Fort Anderson. The thrilling story of USS Underwriter is one of many involving the numerous shipwrecks that occupy the waters of Civil War history. Many years in the making, W. Craig Gaines's Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks is the definitive account of more than 2,000 of these American Civil War--period sunken ships. From Alabama's USS Althea, a Union steam tug lost while removing a Confederate torpedo in the Blakely River, to Wisconsin's Berlin City, a Union side-wheel steamer stranded in Oshkosh, Gaines provides detailed information about each vessel, including its final location, type, dimensions, tonnage, crew size, armament, origin, registry (Union, Confederate, United States, or other country), casualties, circumstances of loss, salvage operations, and the sources of his findings. Organized alphabetically by geographical location (state, country, or body of water), the book also includes a number of maps providing the approximate locations of many of the wrecks -- ranging from the Americas to Europe, the Arctic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean. Also noted are more than forty shipwrecks whose locations are in question. Since the 1960s, the underwater access afforded by SCUBA gear has allowed divers, historians, treasure hunters, and archaeologists to discover and explore many of the American Civil War-related shipwrecks. In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, Gaines scoured countless sources -- from government and official records to sports diver and treasure-hunting magazines -- and cross-indexes his compilation by each vessel's various names and nicknames throughout its career. An essential reference work for Civil War scholars and buffs, archaeologists, divers, and aficionados of naval history, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks revives and preserves for posterity the little-known stories of these intriguing historical artifacts.
Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks
Author: W. Craig Gaines
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807134244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
On the evening of February 2, 1864, Confederate Commander John Taylor Wood led 250 sailors in two launches and twelve boats to capture the USS Underwriter, a side-wheel steam gunboat anchored on the Neuse River near New Bern, North Carolina. During the ensuing fifteen-minute battle, nine Union crewmen lost their lives, twenty were wounded, and twenty-six fell into enemy hands. Six Confederates were captured and several wounded as they stripped the vessel, set it ablaze, and blew it up while under fire from Union-held Fort Anderson. The thrilling story of USS Underwriter is one of many involving the numerous shipwrecks that occupy the waters of Civil War history. Many years in the making, W. Craig Gaines's Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks is the definitive account of more than 2,000 of these American Civil War--period sunken ships. From Alabama's USS Althea, a Union steam tug lost while removing a Confederate torpedo in the Blakely River, to Wisconsin's Berlin City, a Union side-wheel steamer stranded in Oshkosh, Gaines provides detailed information about each vessel, including its final location, type, dimensions, tonnage, crew size, armament, origin, registry (Union, Confederate, United States, or other country), casualties, circumstances of loss, salvage operations, and the sources of his findings. Organized alphabetically by geographical location (state, country, or body of water), the book also includes a number of maps providing the approximate locations of many of the wrecks -- ranging from the Americas to Europe, the Arctic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean. Also noted are more than forty shipwrecks whose locations are in question. Since the 1960s, the underwater access afforded by SCUBA gear has allowed divers, historians, treasure hunters, and archaeologists to discover and explore many of the American Civil War-related shipwrecks. In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, Gaines scoured countless sources -- from government and official records to sports diver and treasure-hunting magazines -- and cross-indexes his compilation by each vessel's various names and nicknames throughout its career. An essential reference work for Civil War scholars and buffs, archaeologists, divers, and aficionados of naval history, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks revives and preserves for posterity the little-known stories of these intriguing historical artifacts.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807134244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
On the evening of February 2, 1864, Confederate Commander John Taylor Wood led 250 sailors in two launches and twelve boats to capture the USS Underwriter, a side-wheel steam gunboat anchored on the Neuse River near New Bern, North Carolina. During the ensuing fifteen-minute battle, nine Union crewmen lost their lives, twenty were wounded, and twenty-six fell into enemy hands. Six Confederates were captured and several wounded as they stripped the vessel, set it ablaze, and blew it up while under fire from Union-held Fort Anderson. The thrilling story of USS Underwriter is one of many involving the numerous shipwrecks that occupy the waters of Civil War history. Many years in the making, W. Craig Gaines's Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks is the definitive account of more than 2,000 of these American Civil War--period sunken ships. From Alabama's USS Althea, a Union steam tug lost while removing a Confederate torpedo in the Blakely River, to Wisconsin's Berlin City, a Union side-wheel steamer stranded in Oshkosh, Gaines provides detailed information about each vessel, including its final location, type, dimensions, tonnage, crew size, armament, origin, registry (Union, Confederate, United States, or other country), casualties, circumstances of loss, salvage operations, and the sources of his findings. Organized alphabetically by geographical location (state, country, or body of water), the book also includes a number of maps providing the approximate locations of many of the wrecks -- ranging from the Americas to Europe, the Arctic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean. Also noted are more than forty shipwrecks whose locations are in question. Since the 1960s, the underwater access afforded by SCUBA gear has allowed divers, historians, treasure hunters, and archaeologists to discover and explore many of the American Civil War-related shipwrecks. In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, Gaines scoured countless sources -- from government and official records to sports diver and treasure-hunting magazines -- and cross-indexes his compilation by each vessel's various names and nicknames throughout its career. An essential reference work for Civil War scholars and buffs, archaeologists, divers, and aficionados of naval history, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks revives and preserves for posterity the little-known stories of these intriguing historical artifacts.
Beneath the Waters
Author: James E. Hemphill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781572490543
Category : Shipwrecks
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This unique work is a user-friendly comprehensive guide and index to the locations of not only Union and Confederate naval vessels, but also to the officially noted blockade runners sunk during the Civil War. Alphabetically organized by the vessel's name, each entry, when listed, specifies the date lost, the approximate location, the source in the Official Records, number of artillery pieces on board, their size of shot and even a synopsis from the battle report in the official records.James Hemphill has saved researchers and underwater sightseers hundreds of hours by compiling this guide, which he culled from more than 28,000 pages of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781572490543
Category : Shipwrecks
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This unique work is a user-friendly comprehensive guide and index to the locations of not only Union and Confederate naval vessels, but also to the officially noted blockade runners sunk during the Civil War. Alphabetically organized by the vessel's name, each entry, when listed, specifies the date lost, the approximate location, the source in the Official Records, number of artillery pieces on board, their size of shot and even a synopsis from the battle report in the official records.James Hemphill has saved researchers and underwater sightseers hundreds of hours by compiling this guide, which he culled from more than 28,000 pages of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion.
Shipwrecks of the Civil War
Author: Donald G. Shomette
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
Civil War Shipwrecks in South Carolina
Author: James D. Spirek
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipwrecks
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipwrecks
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
The Maple Leaf
Author: Keith V. Holland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
An Investigation and Assessment of Civil War Shipwrecks Off Fort Fisher, North Carolina
Author: Gordon P. Watts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipwrecks
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipwrecks
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Civil War Sea Battles
Author: Edward Stokes Miller
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780938289524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Unknown to the general public, detailed logbooks of most Civil War vessels have survived and now lie in the National Archives. Using research from these and other official records, the author has written detailed accounts of the most important events in Civil War maritime history, including battles, amphibious assaults, shipwrecks, court-martials, and even the yellow fever epidemics of 1862 and 1864.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780938289524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Unknown to the general public, detailed logbooks of most Civil War vessels have survived and now lie in the National Archives. Using research from these and other official records, the author has written detailed accounts of the most important events in Civil War maritime history, including battles, amphibious assaults, shipwrecks, court-martials, and even the yellow fever epidemics of 1862 and 1864.
Mobile Bay Shipwreck Survey
Author: Gordon P. Watts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mobile Bay, Battle of, Ala., 1864
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mobile Bay, Battle of, Ala., 1864
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Remote Sensing Investigations of Civil War Era Shipwrecks in the Vicinity of Fort St. Philip, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
This report presents the results of a cultural resource survey and testing project at historic Fort St. Philip in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. The goal of this project was the discovery of vessel remains associated with a naval battle between Union and Confederate forces that occurred at this location in April 1862. Extensive historical research was conducted on both the battle and the ships that took part in it, in order to prepare an historical precis. An initial magnetometer survey was conducted In the Mississippi River and across the batture area in front of the fort. As a result of this survey, six magnetic targets were identified for subsequent testing. These targets later were examined by means of core borings taken at the target locations. Sixty core tests were drilled to a depth of at least fifty feet In the five target areas. Two historic vessels were located as a result of the survey and testing program. The first has been identified as the Confederate ironclad C.S.S. Louisiana, based upon the size of the target, the fabric of material encountered by the core drill, and its location In relationship to historic accounts of its sinking. The second target, composed of iron and bald cypress planks, has been identified tentatively as the River Defense fleet vessel Defiance. Both vessels presently are buried under tens of feet of sediment on the batture between the levee and the Mississippi River. Because the remains of these vessels are inaccessible by conventional means, it is recommended that the New Orleans District produce informational materials to inform the public of these significant resources.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
This report presents the results of a cultural resource survey and testing project at historic Fort St. Philip in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. The goal of this project was the discovery of vessel remains associated with a naval battle between Union and Confederate forces that occurred at this location in April 1862. Extensive historical research was conducted on both the battle and the ships that took part in it, in order to prepare an historical precis. An initial magnetometer survey was conducted In the Mississippi River and across the batture area in front of the fort. As a result of this survey, six magnetic targets were identified for subsequent testing. These targets later were examined by means of core borings taken at the target locations. Sixty core tests were drilled to a depth of at least fifty feet In the five target areas. Two historic vessels were located as a result of the survey and testing program. The first has been identified as the Confederate ironclad C.S.S. Louisiana, based upon the size of the target, the fabric of material encountered by the core drill, and its location In relationship to historic accounts of its sinking. The second target, composed of iron and bald cypress planks, has been identified tentatively as the River Defense fleet vessel Defiance. Both vessels presently are buried under tens of feet of sediment on the batture between the levee and the Mississippi River. Because the remains of these vessels are inaccessible by conventional means, it is recommended that the New Orleans District produce informational materials to inform the public of these significant resources.
Balancing Acts
Author: Jeneva Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blockade
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
During the American Civil War, Wilmington, North Carolina, served as an important blockade running center for the Confederacy. The Cape Fear region's high traffic and dangerous shoals resulted in the largest concentration of Civil War shipwrecks in the world. The interpretation of these wrecks for public outreach constitutes a valuable opportunity to educate members of the public using a material culture assemblage connected with the historical framework of the Wilmington blockade. This thesis explores ways to develop public stewardship programming, specifically targeting SCUBA divers, for six shipwrecks located in the New Inlet unit of the Cape Fear Civil War Shipwreck District. The goal of this thesis is to examine the process and procedures used to balance archaeological preservation and research with public access and educational interpretation, to offer direction for the future management of the New Inlet wrecks.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blockade
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
During the American Civil War, Wilmington, North Carolina, served as an important blockade running center for the Confederacy. The Cape Fear region's high traffic and dangerous shoals resulted in the largest concentration of Civil War shipwrecks in the world. The interpretation of these wrecks for public outreach constitutes a valuable opportunity to educate members of the public using a material culture assemblage connected with the historical framework of the Wilmington blockade. This thesis explores ways to develop public stewardship programming, specifically targeting SCUBA divers, for six shipwrecks located in the New Inlet unit of the Cape Fear Civil War Shipwreck District. The goal of this thesis is to examine the process and procedures used to balance archaeological preservation and research with public access and educational interpretation, to offer direction for the future management of the New Inlet wrecks.