CSS Tennessee
CSS Tennessee, a slow-moving ironclad ram, was built at Selma, Alabama, where she was commissioned on February 16, 1864, Lieutenant James D. Johnston, CSN, in command. CSS Baltic towed her to Mobile where she fitted out for action.
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CSS Tennessee, a slow-moving ironclad ram, was built at Selma, Alabama, where she was commissioned on February 16, 1864, Lieutenant James D. Johnston, CSN, in command. towed her to Mobile where she fitted out for action.
Tennessee was laid down in October 1862, hull and other woodwork turned out by Henry D. Bassett, who launched her the following February, ready for towing to Mobile to be engined and armed. Her steam plant came from the steamer Alonzo Child; only casemate design differed materially from and . Her iron mail was the same 2 by 10 in (50 by 250 mm) plate used on CSS Hun...
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Ray Peeler wrote
He is buried at point washington community cemetary aprox 30 22 03N and 86 06 56W -I can send a picture if you contact me at IRPEELER@aol.com Thanks for the information he had a house on the grounds of the now Eden State Park and was a business partner of the Wesley Lumber company
Posted September 13, 2008
Robert Miller wrote
My great grandfather, Simeon Strickland, was a sailor on the CSS Tennessee during the battle of Mobile Bay. He took a shell fragment or a musket ball under his big toe, cutting the tendons. My great aunts said you could always track him on the beach in Fla. because the big toe pointed straight up, so he left 4 toed prints in the sand!
Posted August 04, 2008
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