USS Montgomery (1858)-- Part 1

From Wikipedia.

I wrote about the current USS Montgomery (LCS-8) earlier this month in my Cooter's History Thing blog and was wondering if there had been any other ships by that name in the U.S. Navy.  Turns out, there had.

There were ones in the American Revolution, War of 1812, the Civil War, Spanish-American War and World War II.  So, all together, there have been six USS Montgomerys.  I wrote about the one in the American Revolution earlier today.

This is the third warship by the name and the one which fought in the Civil War (and as an added bonus for me, was at the Battles of Fort Fisher.  I didn't know that.)

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It was a wooden screw steamer built in New York in 1858, chartered by the U.S. Navy in May 1861, purchased in New York 28 August 1861 and commissioned  27 May 1861 with Commander O.S. Glisson in command.  (Further bonus, he was at Fort Fisher.)

--Old B-Runner