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CSS Magnolia

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal
Side-wheel Steamer
  • Built at New Albany, IN. in 1859
  • Launched date unknown
  • Delivered, date unknown
  • Acquired by the Confederacy as a river transport
  • Final Disposition, destroyed in the Yazoo City area to escape Porter's flotilla, the spring of 1863
  • Admiral Porter wrote that the chief gain from his Yazoo Pass expedition was its "harm to the enemy" in causing them "to sink the Confederate steamers SS Star of the West, CSS Magnolia and SS Natchez
    Specifications:
    Displacement 824 t.
    Length 258'
    Beam 44'
    Depth of Hull unknown
    Draft 7'5"
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament unknown
    Propulsion
    steam engine
    two side-wheels

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