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USS Neosho (I)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal

Neosho Class River Monitor:

Laid down in mid-1862 by James B. Eads, Union Iron Works, Carondelet, MO. as Neosho a single-turreted, wooden-hulled, river monitor protected by iron plate armor

Launched, 18 February 1863

Commissioned 13 May 1863 as USS Neosho at Cairo, IL., CDR. John C. Febiger in command

Completed 1 July 1863

During the Civil War USS Neosho participated in the following operations/engagements:

Patrol of the Mississippi and tributaries clearing the area of Southern raiders

Red River expedition, 12 March to 22 May 1864

Decommissioned, 23 July 1865, at Mound City, IL., remaining in ordinary

Renamed Vixen 15 June 1869

Renamed Osceola 2 August 1869

Final Disposition, sold at Mound City to David Campbell 17 August 1873, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 523 t.
Length 180'
Beam 45'
Draft 4' 6"
Depth 9'
Speed unknown
Complement 100
Armament

two 11" Dahlgren smoothbores

Propulsion steam

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
091914331	42k	*Namesake* Neosho - The Neosho River is a tributary of the Arkansas River in eastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma. (Wikipedia)	Tommy Trampp
	50k	Watercolor by Dr. Oscar Parkes of USS Neosho. Courtesy of Dr. Oscar Parkes, London, England, 1936. US Navy History and Heritage Command photo # NH 60617	US Navy History and Heritage Command
	157k	Tug *Dahlia* (left) and USS Neosho (right) moored to the river bank above the falls at Alexandria, Louisiana, during the Red River campaign, circa May 1864. Courtesy of Frederick Way, Jr., 1941. US Navy History and Heritage Command photo # NH 55972	Aryeh Wetherhorn
	217k	"Red River Expedition, March-May 1864" Watercolor by James Alden, depicting the monitors USS Neosho and USS Osage running through a break in the Red River dam to pass safely over the rapids, 9 May 1864. This passage took advantage of an accidental break in the dam, which was being built by Army engineers to raise the river level enough to permit passage of all the vessels trapped above. Four gunboats passed through at this time: USS Lexington (which went first), USS Neosho (second), USS Fort Hindman and USS Osage. US Navy History and Heritage Command photo # 91999-A-KN (Color) from the collection of CDR. George M. Bache, USN.	Robert Hurst
	50k	"The United States Monitor 'Neosho' Engaging Three Rebel Batteries on the Cumberland, Below Nashville, Dec. 6, 1864" - A line engraving, after a sketch by Adam Rohe, published in "Harper's Weekly", 31 December 1864, depicting the action near Bell's Mills, TN. US Navy History and Heritage Command photo # NH 58894	US Navy History and Heritage Command
098608905	40k	Monitors laid up at Mound City after the war, about 1868. The stern-wheeler USS Neosho is in center, looking aft. *Yuma, Shiloh, and Klamath* of the Casco class are at left. In the rear at right is one of the Marietta class with funnels abreast, and her sister can be seen behind *Neosho. No photographs exist of the Marietta-class ships. The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County*	Tommy Trampp

USS Neosho (I)
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