U.S.S. Roanoke

Reports

See the Historical Documents page.
See the index entry for the USS Roanoke in Volume 7, Series 1 of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies at Cornell's Making of America web site.

Ship

The Roanoker Magazine carried an artice in June 1996 about the different USS Roanoke's over time, but unfortunately that article is no longer on line.
After this battle, the Roanoke was cut down and refit as an ironclad. See the page at the Mariners' Museum.
The Naval Historical Center has these images that include the Roanoke:
- "The Battle between the 'Monitor' and the 'Merrimac', in Hampton Roads, March 9, 1862"
- "The Iron-clad Navy of the United States"

Crew

Gilchrist, E., Surgeon.
Kintzing, Matthew R., Marine Captain, Commanding Marine Guard^[T16]
Marston, John, Captain
He was from Massachusetts.
McDonald, John, 3d ^[T14]
Serious wound. This might be John McDonough III who was aboard the Congress but was treated on the Roanoke.

Unfortunately, I have not yet collected the names of the other crew. Any help would be appreciated.

^[T5] Wood, Wm. Maxwell, Fleet Surgeon, Report transmitting list of killed and wounded, March 12, 1862. ORN I, v7, p15-17 Most of the injured on the Roanoke were from other ships.

^[T14] United States Government. Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the Third Session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress. Vol. 3. 1862. House of Representatives, 37th Congress, 3rd session. Ex. Doc. 1. Washington, DC. 1862. 931pp
Report on the Killed and Wounded p96-97.

^[T16] Sullivan, David M. The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War -- The Second Year. White Mane Publishing Company, Inc. Shippenburg, PA. 1997.

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