The first Federal ironclad spends her last evening above water before foundering off the coast of North Carolina.
Category: Navy
Seeking to Open the Mississippi
Nathaniel P. Banks receives orders assigning him to command the Federal Department of the Gulf, operating mostly in Louisiana and Texas. Banks would eventually succeed the controversial Benjamin F. Butler.
The Fall of Galveston
Federal army-navy forces occupy one of the most important points on the Texas coast.
The Battle of Corpus Christi
A Federal naval force off the coast of Texas attempts to capture the key port city of Corpus Christi.
The Battle of Baton Rouge
Confederate forces try to retake the Louisiana capital with the help of a mighty but unreliable ironclad.
The Enrica Escapes Great Britain
U.S. officials protest the construction of a ship at Liverpool that escapes British jurisdiction and later becomes the feared commerce raider C.S.S. Alabama.