Hampton Roads order of battle
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The following forces and commanders fought at the Battle of Hampton Roads
, Virginia, March 8–9, 1862.
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US Navy
Battle of Hampton Roads
The Battle of Hampton Roads, often referred to as either the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack or the Battle of Ironclads, was the most noted and arguably most important naval battle of the American Civil War from the standpoint of the development of navies...
, Virginia, March 8–9, 1862.
Union
US Army (stationed at Fort MonroeFort Monroe
Fort Monroe was a military installation in Hampton, Virginia—at Old Point Comfort, the southern tip of the Virginia Peninsula...
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- 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Dept of Virginia - Brig. Gen. Joseph K. F. MansfieldJoseph K. MansfieldJoseph King Fenno Mansfield was a career United States Army officer, civil engineer, and a Union general in the American Civil War, mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam.-Early life:...
- 20th Indiana Infantry Regiment20th Regiment Indiana InfantryThe 20th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:*The 20th Indiana Volunteer Infantry was organized at Lafayette, Indiana on July 22, 1861.*Peninsular Campaign...
- Colonel William Brown - 7th New York Volunteer Infantry7th New York Volunteer Infantry RegimentThe 7th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It is also known as the Steuben Guard or the Steuben Regiment.-Service:...
- 11th New York Volunteer Infantry
- 20th Indiana Infantry Regiment
US Navy
- North Atlantic Blocking SquadronUnion blockadeThe Union Blockade, or the Blockade of the South, took place between 1861 and 1865, during the American Civil War, when the Union Navy maintained a strenuous effort on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the Confederate States of America designed to prevent the passage of trade goods, supplies, and arms...
- Captain (Flag Officer) Louis M. Goldsborough-
- Senior officer present: Captain John Marston
- Ironclad monitor:
- MonitorUSS MonitorUSS Monitor was the first ironclad warship commissioned by the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She is most famous for her participation in the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862, the first-ever battle fought between two ironclads...
- Lieutenant John L. WordenJohn Lorimer WordenJohn Lorimer Worden was a U.S. rear admiral who served in the American Civil War. He commanded Monitor against the Confederate vessel Virginia in first battle of ironclad ships in 1862.-Background and early career:Worden was born in Sparta, Mount PleasantTownship, Westchester County, New York...
- Monitor
- 50-gun screw frigates:
- MinnesotaUSS Minnesota (1855)USS Minnesota was a wooden steam frigate in the United States Navy. Launched in 1855 and commissioned eighteen months later, the ship served in east Asia for two years before being decommissioned...
- Captain Gershom J. Van Brunt - RoanokeUSS Roanoke (1855)|- External links :**...
- Captain John Marston
- Minnesota
- 44-gun sailing frigates:
- St. LawrenceUSS St. Lawrence (1848)USS St. Lawrence was a frigate in the United States Navy. She was based on the same plans as .Although St. Lawrence was laid down in 1826 by the Norfolk Navy Yard, she remained uncompleted on the ways until work on her, interrupted by a shortage of funds, was resumed during the Mexican-American War...
- Captain Hugh Y. Purviance - CongressUSS Congress (1841)USS Congress — the fourth United States Navy ship to carry that name — was a sailing frigate, like her predecessor, .Congress served with distinction in the Mediterranean, South Atlantic Ocean, and in the Pacific Ocean...
- Lieutenant Joseph B. Smith
- St. Lawrence
- 24-gun sailing sloop-of-war:
- CumberlandUSS Cumberland (1842)The first USS Cumberland was a 50-gun sailing frigate of the United States Navy. She was the first ship sunk by the ironclad CSS Virginia....
- Lieutenant George U. Morris (acting)
- Cumberland
- auxiliary gunboats:
- MysticUSS MysticShips of the United States Navy known as USS MysticOther US Navy ships named Mystic* DSRV-1 Mystic...
- ZouaveUSS Zouave (1861)USS Zouave was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was needed by the Navy to be part of the fleet of ships to prevent blockade runners from entering ports in the Confederacy....
- Acting Master Henry Reaney - DragonUSS Dragon (1861)USS Dragon was a small 118-ton steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the start of the American Civil War.Dragon's primary assignment was to participate as a gunboat in the Union blockade of the ports and waterways of the Confederate States of America.- Purchased in New York City in 1861...
- Acting Master William Watson
- Mystic
- miscellaneous support craft
- Whitehall (tug) - Acting Master William J. Baulsir
- Young America (tug)
- CambridgeUSS CambridgeFour ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Cambridge, after the various US places named Cambridge.* The , was an armed steamship in use during the American Civil War....
(tug) - Commander William A. Parker
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Confederate
CS Navy- Office of Orders and Details (responsible for naval defenses of Norfolk) - Captain (Flag Officer) Franklin BuchananFranklin BuchananFranklin Buchanan was an officer in the United States Navy who became an admiral in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War, and commanded the ironclad CSS Virginia.-Early life:...
- Ironclad:
- VirginiaCSS VirginiaCSS Virginia was the first steam-powered ironclad warship of the Confederate States Navy, built during the first year of the American Civil War; she was constructed as a casemate ironclad using the raised and cut down original lower hull and steam engines of the scuttled . Virginia was one of the...
- Captain Franklin BuchananFranklin BuchananFranklin Buchanan was an officer in the United States Navy who became an admiral in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War, and commanded the ironclad CSS Virginia.-Early life:...
, Lieutenant Catesby ap Roger JonesCatesby ap Roger JonesCatesby ap Roger Jones was an officer in the U.S. Navy who became a commander in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
- Virginia
- Tender gunboats
- RaleighCSS Raleigh (1861)CSS Raleigh was originally a small, iron-hulled, propeller-driven towing steamer operating on the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal. She was taken over by the State of North Carolina in May 1861, and transferred to the Confederate States the following July. Her commanding officer during 1861-1862 was...
- Lieutenant Joseph W. AlexanderJoseph W. AlexanderDr. Joseph W. Alexander, DVM, is an American educator from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. He is currently serving as the Oklahoma Secretary of Science and Technology under Governor of Oklahoma Brad Henry, having been appointed by Henry in 2004.... - BeaufortCSS BeaufortThe CSS Beaufort was an iron hull gunboat that served in North Carolina and Virginia during the Civil War.The Beaufort was originally called the Caledonia. She was built at the Pusey & Jones Company of Wilmington, Delaware in 1854. The Caledonia operated out of Edenton, North Carolina. In 1856...
- Lieutenant William H. ParkerWilliam Harwar ParkerWilliam Harwar Parker was an officer in the United States Navy and later in the Confederate States Navy. His auto-biography, entitled Recollections of a Naval Officer 1841-1865, provides a unique insight into the United States Navy of the mid-19th century during an era when the Age of Sail was...
- Raleigh
- Ironclad:
- James River SquadronJames River SquadronThe James River Squadron was formed shortly after the secession of the State of Virginia as part of the Virginia State Navy. The squadron is most notable for its role in patrolling the James River, which was the main water approach to the Confederate capital, Richmond...
- Commander John R. TuckerJohn Randolph Tucker (1812-1883)John Randolph Tucker , who served as an officer in the navies of three nations, was born in Alexandria, Virginia...
- Gunboats
- Patrick HenryCSS Patrick HenryCSS Patrick Henry was built in New York City in 1859 by the renowned William H. Webb for the Old Dominion Steam Ship Line as the civilian steamer Yorktown, a brigantine-rigged side-wheel steamer. She carried passengers and freight between Richmond, Virginia and New York City...
- Commander John R. TuckerJohn Randolph Tucker (1812-1883)John Randolph Tucker , who served as an officer in the navies of three nations, was born in Alexandria, Virginia... - JamestownCSS JamestownCSS Jamestown, originally a side-wheel, passenger steamer, was built at New York City in 1853, and seized at Richmond, Virginia in 1861 for the Commonwealth of Virginia Navy...
- Lieutenant Joseph N. BarneyJoseph Nicholson BarneyJoseph Nicholson Barney was born in 1818 in Maryland, son of John Barney and Elizabeth Nicholson Hindman. He married Eliza Jacobs Rogers on June 9, 1846 in New Castle County, Delaware. He married a second time to Anne Seddon Dornin... - TeaserCSS TeaserCSS Teaser had been the aging Georgetown, D.C. tugboat York River until the beginning of the American Civil War, when she was taken into the Confederate States Navy. Later, she was captured by the United States Navy and became the first USS Teaser.-CSS Teaser:Teaser was built at Philadelphia,...
- Lieutenant William A. WebbWilliam A. WebbWilliam A. Webb was an American sailor and Mexican-American War veteran who resigned his United States Navy commission after more than 20 years of service to join the Confederate States Navy in the American Civil War...
- Patrick Henry
- Gunboats