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CSS Maurepas

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal
Side-wheel Steamer Packet
  • Built, in 1858 at New Albany, IN. for J.A. Cotton of New Orleans as the wooden-hulled side-wheel Steam Packet SS Grosse Tete
  • Between 1858 and 1869 Grosse Tete worked the New Orleans–Bends commercial trade route
  • In 1860, the Bayou Sara Mail Co. purchased Grosse Tete for service the New Orleans–Coast mail route
  • Purchased in November 1861 by Confederate authorities for conversion to a river gunboat
  • Commissioned CSS Maurepas, 12 November 1861
  • CSS Maurepas was assigned to Flag Officer George Nichols Hollins, forces operating in defense of the lower Mississippi River and the coast of Louisiana
  • Maurepas moved farther up the Mississippi River in 1862, where she served under LT. Joseph Fry
  • Between March 12 and April 7 Maurepas participated in the defensive operations of Island No. 10 and New Madrid, Missouri
  • After the evacuation of New Madrid on 7 April she and CSS Pontchartrain were sent up the White River into Arkansas
  • Final Disposition during the 17 June 1862, naval engagement at St. Charles, LT. Fry ordered CSS hi crew to scuttle Maurepas alongside the Confederate steamers Mary Patterson and Eliza G in an attempt to block the White River this preventing the Federal navy’s navigation of the river
    Specifications:
    Displacement 399 t.
    Length 180'
    Beam 34'
    Depth of Hull unknown
    Draft 7'
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament
    five or six guns
    Propulsion
    one or two steam engines
    two side-wheels
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