Draft:List of ironclad warships of the American Civil War

Ship Completed Commissioned Significant Events Fate Country Notes Image
CSS Albemarle[1] January 1863 17 April 1864 Battle of Albemarle Sound 27 October 1864 sunk by spar torpedo, captured, raised, and sold Confederacy named for an estuary in North Carolina
CSS/USS Atlanta[2][3] 9 May 1861 22 November 1862 none Sold to Haiti, 4 May 1869. Lost at sea, December 1869 Confederacy, Union, United Kingdom Formerly Fingal (UK)
USS Chillicothe[4] unknown 5 September 1862 expeditions to the White River, capture of Fort Hindman, Yazoo Pass Expedition, Red River Campaign Sold, 29 November 1865, Destroyed by fire, September 1872 Union named for the capital of Ohio from 1803 to 1810
USS Choctaw[5][4] 1853 23 March 1863 Battle of Milliken's Bend, capture of Fort DeRussy Sold, 28 March 1866 Union
USS Lafayette 1848 27 February 1863 Battle of Vicksburg, Red River Campaign Sold, 28 March 1866 Union
CSS Nashville mid-1863 15 September 1864 Battle of Mobile Bay Surrendered to U.S. forces; sold 22 November 1867 Confederacy
USS Osage 13 January 1863 10 July 1863 Red River Campaign, capture of Fort DeRussy, Battle of Blair's Landing, Battle of Spanish Fort Sunk by mine, 29 March 1865, Raised and sold, 22 November 1867 Union
CSS/USS Tennessee February 1863 16 February 1864 Battle of Mobile Bay Sold for scrap, 27 November 1867 Confederacy, Union Captured by Union forces at Battle of Mobile Bay
CSS Texas January 1865 Unknown none Sold, 15 October 1867 Confederacy
USS Tuscumbia[6] 2 December 1862 12 March 1863 operations against Vicksburg, Mississippi, recapture of Fort Heiman Sold, 29 November 1865 Union sold at auction at Mound City to W. K. Adams
CSS Virginia 7 March 1862 17 Febuary 1862 Battle of Hampton Roads scuttled 11 May 1862 Confederacy first steam-powered ironclad warship built by the Confederate States Navy
  1. ^ Bisbee, Saxon T. (2018). Engines of Rebellion: Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering in the American Civil War
  2. ^ "Atlanta". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command. Archived from the original on 8 October 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
  3. ^ "The Yards". acumfae Govan. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  4. ^ a b Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
  5. ^ Miller, Francis Trevelyan, Robert S. Lanier, and Henry Wysham Lanier. The Photographic History of the Civil War: Thousands of Scenes Photographed, 1861–1865. In Ten Volumes, 1911.
  6. ^ Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year: 1862.
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