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.

Union[]

US Army (stationed at Fort Monroe)[1]

  • 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Dept of Virginia - Brig. Gen. Joseph K. F. Mansfield
    • 20th Indiana Infantry Regiment - Colonel William Brown
    • 7th New York Volunteer Infantry - Colonel George W. Von Schack
    • 11th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment - Colonel Charles M. Loeser

US Navy[2]

  • North Atlantic Blocking Squadron - Captain (Flag Officer) Louis M. Goldsborough
      • Senior officer present: Captain John Marston[3]
    • Ironclad monitor:
    • 50-gun screw frigates:
    • 44-gun sailing frigates:
    • 24-gun sailing sloop-of-war:
    • auxiliary gunboats:
    • miscellaneous support craft
      • Whitehall (tug) - Acting Master William J. Baulsir
      • Young America (tug)
      • Cambridge (tug) - Commander William A. Parker

Confederate[]

CS Navy[4]

Notes[]

  1. ^ ORA I, v. 9, p. 5
  2. ^ ORN I, v. 7, pp. 3–32.
  3. ^ Davis, Duel between the first ironclads, p. 72.
  4. ^ Scharf, History of the Confederate States Navy, p. 158.
  5. ^ Technically, Virginia had no captain during the battle; see Still, Iron afloat, p. 24.

References[]

  • Davis, William C. Duel between the first ironclads. Doubleday, 1975.
  • Scharf, J. Thomas, History of the Confederate States Navy from its organization to the surrender of its last vessel; its stupendous struggle with the great Navy of the United States, the engagements fought in the rivers and harbors of the South and upon the high seas, blockade-running, first use of iron-clads and torpedoes, and privateer history. New York, Rogers & Sherwood, 1887; reprint, Random House, 1996.
  • Still, William N. Jr., Iron afloat: the story of the Confederate armorclads. Vanderbilt University, 1971; reprint, University of South Carolina, 1985. ISBN 0-87249-616-3
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