Photo #: NH 61568
USS Cairo (1862)
Photographed in the Mississippi River area during 1862, with
a boat alongside her port bow, crewmen on deck and other river
steamers in the background.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 59002
"Commodore Foote's Gun-boat Flotilla on the Mississippi"
Line engraving after a sketch by Alexander Simplot, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862.
Ships are identified below the image as (from left to right): Mound City, Essex, Cairo, Saint Louis, Louisville, Benton, Pittsburg and Lexington.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 42755
"Battle of Fort Pillow, 3rd Position"
Engraving published in Rear Admiral Henry Walke's "Naval
Scenes and Reminiscences of the Civil War in the United States
..." (1877), depicting the action between the Confederate
River Defense Fleet and Federal ironclads near Fort Pillow, Tennessee,
10 May 1862.
Confederate ships, seen at left, include: Colonel Lovell,
General Beauregard, General M. Jeff Thompson, General
Bragg, General Sumter, Little Rebel and General
Earl van Dorn.
The Federal ironclads, in the center and right, are: Carondelet,
Cincinnati, Mound City, Benton, Saint
Louis, Cairo and Pittsburg. A tug is seen in
the right foreground.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 42365
"Brilliant Naval Victory on the Mississippi River, Near
Fort Wright, May 10th 1862"
"By the Union Flotilla of 6 Gunboats, commanded by Com.
C.H. Davis, and the Rebel fleet of 8 Iron-clads, under Hollins.
The action lasted one hour. Two of the Rebel gunboats were blown
up and one sunk, when the remainder retired precipitately under
the guns of the fort."
Lithograph by Currier & Ives, New York, providing a curious (and
quite inaccurate) view of the action off Fort Pillow in which
the Confederate River Defense Fleet, under Captain James E. Montgomery,
attacked Federal gunboats.
The print identifies the following ships (from left to right):
CSS "Mallory" (a non-existent vessel, shown sinking);
CSS Louisiana (an ironclad that had already been destroyed
by this time); USS Cincinnati; USS Benton; USS
Cairo; USS Carondelet; USS Saint Louis;
and USS Conestoga.
Collection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 1936.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 42367
"The Total Annihilation of the Rebel Fleet by the Federal
Fleet under Commodore Davis."
"On the Morning of June 6th 1862, off Memphis, Ten."
Lithograph by Middleton, Strobridge & Co.
In the foreground, the print depicts the Confederate ships (from
left to right): General M. Jeff Thompson (shown sinking);
Little Rebel (shown burning); General Sterling Price;
General Beauregard (shown being rammed by the Ellet Ram
Monarch); General Bragg (shown aground) and Colonel
Lovell (shown sinking).
In the background are the Federal warships (from left to right):
Queen of the West; Cairo; Carondelet; Louisville;
Saint Louis; a tug; and Benton.
The city of Memphis is in the right distance, with a wharf boat
by the shore.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 2288
USS Cairo (1862)
Is sunk by a Confederate mine, in the Yazoo River, Mississippi,
12 December 1862.
19th Century engraving, from a sketch by Rear Admiral Henry A.
Walke.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 55172
USS Cairo (1862)
Sketch of the ship's wreck, entitled "Cairo Submerged",
probably depicting the scene immediately after she was sunk by
a Confederate mine in the Yazoo River, Mississippi, on 12 December
1862. Note men sitting on projecting timbers and swimming in
the water nearby.
Courtesy of Mrs. A. Hopkins, 1927.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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