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USS New National
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 US Army Transport New National (1862)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Campaign Medal
Sidewheel Packet:
  • Built in 1860 as the wooden sidewheel packet National (II) or New National at Jeffersonville, IN.
  • Machinery taken from former National (1854-1860)
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Seized by Union gunboats at Memphis, TN., 6 June 1862, after they had destroyed the Confederate River Defense Fleet
  • Placed in service as a transport, at Memphis TN., date unknown, First Master A. M. Grant in command, for the War Department's Western Flotilla
  • New National carried troops in a joint expedition to St. Charles, AR., where they landed 17 June, stormed Southern earthworks, and won control of the White River for the Union fleet
  • Transferred from the War Department to the Navy, 30 September 1862
  • Commissioned, USS New National, date and location unknown
  • New National served as a receiving ship and as a mail and supply boat for the Mississippi Squadron
  • Returned to her owner, Pearson Montgomery, at the intervention of Secretary of the Treasury Chase, 21 March 1863, she was simultaneously chartered by the Navy and kept in service
  • After the fall of Vicksburg, New National participated in the expedition which captured Yazoo City, MS., 13 July 1863
  • Following service maintaining Union communication and supply lines on the Mississippi and its tributaries through the end of the Civil War, New National decommissioned
  • Decommissioned, 12 April 1865, at Mound City, IL. and returned to her owner by Acting RADM Lee
  • Final Disposition, retired in 1873 and taken to Cincinnati. She was wrecked on the wharf at Covington, KY, and the high water that October carried her away
    Specifications:
    Displacement 379 t.
    Length 184'
    Beam 33'
    Depth of Hold unknown
    Draft 6'7"
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament
    8 January 1863 - one 12-pdr rifle
    31 December 1863 - two 12-pdr rifles, two 32-pdrs 42 cwt
    1 November 1864 - two 32-pdrs 42 cwt
    31 March 1865 - two 32-pdrs 42 cwt, two heavy 12-pdrs
    Propulsion
    steam engine(s)
    boiler(s)
    two sidewheels
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    Mational 90k National at the levee at Mobile, AL., date unknown John Spivey
    New National
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
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