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NavSource Online: "Old Navy" Ship Photo Archive CSS New Orleans Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
Civil War Medal
Floating Battery:
Fitted out at New Orleans, LA. 1861, LT. S.W. Averett CSN in command
New Orleans featured two small boilers with pump connections for repelling boarders by drenching them with scalding water from her hoses
New Orleans deployed in the Mississippi River in time to assist joint army-navy operations at Island Number Ten. and New Madrid, Missouri, from March 12 to April 7, 1862.
Final Disposition, 0n the final day of the Battle of Island Number Ten, the Confederates sank New Orleans Specifications:
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Armament
one 9" gun
seventeen 8" guns
two 32-pdr rifles
Propulsion steam Click On Image
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098685201 202k Woodcut of the floating battery CSS New Orleans/font> Robert Hurst CSS New Orleans
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