HAMPTON ROADS, VIRGINIA

8 March 1862

OR- Series I, Volume IX, Chapter XIX, Pg 1

 

U.S. Army Forces

20th Indiana Infantry Regiment

7th New York Infantry Regiment

11th New York Infantry Regiment

U.S. Naval Forces

U.S.S. MINNESOTA --- Captain Van Brunt

U.S.S. CONGRESS --- Lieutenant Joseph B. Smith (K)

                                                             Lieutenant George N. Morris

U.S.S. ZOUAVE

U.S.S. CUMBERLAND

U.S.S. MONITOR --- Lieutenant John L. Worden

U.S.S. ROANOKE --- Captain Marston

U.S.S. ST. LAWRENCE --- Captain Purviance

CASUALTIES Killed 261; Wounded 108; TOTAL 369

 

 

Confederate Naval Forces

COMMODORE BUCHANAN

* C.S.S. VIRGINIA (Merrimac) – Flag Officer Franklin Buchanan

            Executive Officer – Lieutenant Catesby R. Jones

            Officers:

            Lieutenant Charles Simms

            Lieutenant R. D. Minor

                        Lieutenant Hunter Davidson

            Lieutenant John Tyler Wood

                        Lieutenant J. R. Eggleston

            Lieutenant Walter Butt

            Midshipmen

                        Foute

                        Marmaduke

                        Littlepage

                        Craig

                        Long

                        Rootes

            Pay Master – James Semple

            Surgeon – Dinwiddie Phillips

            Assistant Surgeon – Algernon S. Garnett

            Captain of Marines – Reuben Thom

            Acting Chief Engineer – H. A. Ramsey

            Assistant Engineers

                        Tynan

                        Campbell

                        Herring

                        Jack

                        White

            Boatswain – Haske

            Gunner – Oliver

            Carpenter – Lindsey

            Clerk – Arthur Sinclair Jr.

            Volunteer Aide – Lieutenant Douglas Forrest C.S.A.

                                    * Battles & Leaders, Volume I, Pg 695

CASUALTIES Killed 7; Wounded 17; TOTAL 24

 

                

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