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Nashville (II)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal

Ironclad Ram:

Built in 1864, as a side-wheel steam sloop, at Montgomery, AL.

Launched, in mid-1864

Taken to Mobile for completion in 1864, including the addition of the armor plating removed from CSS Baltic LT. Charles Carroll Simms CSN in command

Still fitting out, she took no part in the battle of Mobile Bay on 5 August 1864

Surrendered to Union forces, 10 May 1865

Purchased by the Union Navy and sold at New Orleans, 22 November 1867

Specifications:
Displacement unknown
Length 271'
Beam 62' 6"
Depth 13'
Draft 10' 9"
Speed 5 kts
Complement unknown

Armament

three 7" rifles

one 24-pdr

Propulsion steam

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
	60k	Drawing made circa 1865. of the incomplete *Nashville* which was surrendered to Union forces, 10 May 1865. The original drawing is in color. Written in pencil in its lower left is "Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, with respectful regards, His Obdt. Servant, Thornton A. Jenkins, Commodore, U.S. Navy.". The original is plan # 81-12-2c in Record Group 19 at the U.S. National Archives. US Naval History an Heritage Command photo # NH 76387.	US Naval History and Heritage Command
NH 45683	73k	Contemporary sketches of the uncompleted *Nashville. US Naval History and Heritage Command photos # NH 45683. and NH 45682*	US Naval History and Heritage Command
NH 45682	94k		US Naval History and Heritage Command
	139k	The personal pennant of Admiral Buchanan, CSN. The Pennant has a blue background with 10 white stars in a circle and one at the center The pennant was flown over CSS Nashville. A note attached to the hoist of the flag reads, " Pennant of the rebel Admiral Buchanan of the ram "Nashville" from the "Confederate " navy yard at Mobile Alabama. Captured in Mobile Bay, 12 April 1865, by John R. Carmody of US Ironclad Cincinnati." US Navy photo # 2011-10-1 from the Collection of the Curator Branch; Naval History and Heritage Command.	Robert Hurst

Nashville (II)
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