USS Adolph Hugel
The USS Adolph Hugel was a schooner that was purchased by the Navy on 21 September 1861 and commissioned around 11 January 1862, Acting Master Hollis B. Jencks commanding.
The Adolph Hugel was assigned to the David Porter's Mortar Flotilla within the West Gulf Blockading Squadron and in that capacity participated in the battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip and the fall of New Orleans, & the attack on Vicksburg. Afterwards she was reassigned to the Potomac River Flotilla after a yard period in Baltimore in August 1862.
Deaths
| Name | Rate/Rank | Date of Death | Age |
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Key
⚔ killed in action
★ prisoner of war
✚ died of disease or injury
◼died of yellow fever
ø died due to vessel loss
✹ died in ordnance accident
⋂ buried on land in marked grave
〰 buried/lost at sea
🎖 Medal of Honor recipient
✎ transcribed letters of sailor/marine posted