Ironclad Photo Gallery II: Ships

[USS Kickapoo]
Broadside view of the riverine monitor Kickapoo

[USS Lafayette]
The river ironclad Lafayette on the Mississippi

The Passaic-class monitor Lehigh tied up along the
James River; note light fieldpieces on the deck

[USS Milwaukee]
The twin-turret Eads-built Milwaukee in Mobile Bay in 1865.
Chickasaw, Winnebago, and Kickapoo were identical to her.

The deck of the original Monitor herself-- note
the dents in the turret from the Virginia's shots

[USS Mound City]
The City class gunboat Mound City, bearing a modified
"civilian" pilothouse on top of her armored pilothouse

The monitor Nahant with a schooner alongside

[USS Onondaga]
The "iron elephant," the Onondaga, on the James River

The sternwheeler riverine monitor Osage. This photo
is sometimes identified as her sister ship Neosho.

[USS Ozark]
The riverine monitor Ozark was designed to carry
an experimental underwater gun that was never mounted.

Typical of the "City Class," the St. Louis helped
spearhead the Union drive down the Mississippi

[CSS Stonewall]
The French-built Confederate ironclad Stonewall didn't
make it across the Atlantic before Lee surrendered

The formidable Southern ironclad Tennessee, seen in
later days as a Union flagship on the Mississippi

[USS Tuscumbia]
The riverine ironclad Tuscumbia, after some hard service

The HMS Wivern; built by Laird at Birkenhead near Liverpool, England
by contract of Commander James D. Bulloch, she would have been the CSS
Mississippi had she been successfully delivered to the Confederacy.

[USS Wyandotte]
The monitor Wyandotte, formerly the Tippecanoe,
seen in commission in 1898

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