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CSS Hampton


Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal

Screw Steamer - Wood-hull Gunboat :
  • Laid down at Norfolk Navy Yard in 1862
  • Launched in 1862
  • Commissioned, in May 1862, LT. George W. Harrison, CSN in command
  • Based at Norfolk Navy Yard until May 1862, when the yard was abandoned and the fleet moved up the James River
  • CSS Hampton, LT. John Herndon Maury, CSN, in command, participated in the following actions; the battle at Dutch Gap, 12 August 1864; operations against Fort Harrison, 29 September to 1 October; and the engagement at Chaffin's Bluff, 22 October
  • Hampton was burned by the Confederates as they evacuated Richmond, VA., 3 April 1865.
  • The Ship's flag was taken from the ship as it sank in the James River by LT. William Ladd, 13th New Hampshire Regiment
  • Recently rediscovered, the flag will be on display at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum.

    Notes and references
    Military Wiki
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
    Coski (1996), John M. Capital Navy: The Men, Ships and Operations of the James River Squadron, Campbell, CA: Savas Woodbury Publishers. ISBN 1-882810-03-1.


    Specifications:
    Displacement 166 t.
    Length 106'
    Beam 21'
    Draft 6'
    Depth of Hold unknown
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament
    one 9" rifle
    one 32-pdr smoothbore
    Propulsion steam
    single propeller

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    Hampton
    098685801
    64k FLAGSHIP MODELS 1/192 Scale CSS Hampton, Maury" Gun Boat (6.5 inches Long) ironcladmodels ship-modeler-1955 Known as "Maury Gunboats", Tommy Trampp
    Hampton
    098685802
    146k CSS Hampton flag taken by by LT. William Ladd, 13th New Hampshire Regiment shortly before the ship sank into the James River. After the war, Ladd kept the flag, where it remained until a Massachusetts law firm settled the estate of a Ladd family member in the 1960’s. The care of the flag rested with the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society from the 1960’s until 2013, when they decided to donate the flag to the NHHC in order to conserve and showcase it. . Tommy Trampp

    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    CSS Hampton Flag at Hampton Roads Naval Museum
    Commanding Officers
    01LT. Harrison, George W., CSNMay 1862 - 1862
    02LT. Davidson, Hunter, CSN1862 - July 1863
    03LT. Maury, John S., CSNJuly 1863 - October 1864
    04LT. Murdaugh, John W. CSNOctober 1864
    05LT. Foreman, Ivey, CSNOctober - November 1864
    06LT. Butt, Walter Raleigh, CSNNovember
    07LT. Sheppard, Francis E., CSNDecember 1864 – January 1865
    08LT. Wilson, Joseph David, CSNJanuary – February 1865
    Courtesy Tommy Trampp

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