USS Brooklyn

The Brooklyn was a screw sloop-of-war that spent majority of the Civil War on the West Gulf Blockading Squadron.

	Name	Rate/Rank	Date of Death	Age
⚔	John Anderson	Midshipman	24 April 1862
⚔ ⋂	Richard Burke	Coal Heaver	5 August 1864
⚔ ⋂	William H. Cook	Acting Master's Mate	5 August 1864
	Richard Curling	Seaman	18 May 1864	41
⚔ ⋂	Anthony Dunn	Fireman 2nd Class	5 August 1864	27
✚	John Dunn	Coal Heaver	6 August 1864	26
	George Goodins	Seaman	17 December 1862
⚔	Eli Harwood	Ordinary Seaman	5 August 1864	24
⚔	Dennis Leary	Seaman	24 April 1862	21
⚔	William Lenahan	Private, USMC	24 April 1862
✚	Cornelius Martin	Landsman	14 April 1863	22
	James McCormack	Sergeant, USMC	21 August 1863
⚔	James McDermund	Landsman	5 August 1864	26
⚔	Daniel McEmory	Boy	24 April 1862	16
⚔ ⋂	Peter Murphy	Private, USMC	5 August 1864
✚	John Newman	Seaman	30 May 1863	43
✚	Francis Prior	Ordinary Seaman	24 August 1864	21
⚔	Lewis Richard	Seaman	5 August 1864	28
⚔	Henry H. Roff	Private, USMC	24 April 1862
⚔	Andrew Rourke	Seaman	24 April 1862	26
⚔ ⋂	John Ryan	Landsman	5 August 1864	22
⚔	Bernard "Barney" Sands	Quartermaster	24 April 1862
	John Scannell	1st Class Boy	14 July 1862	18
⚔ ⋂	Charles B. Seymour	Seaman	5 August 1864	23
	William Short	Fireman 2nd Class	21 June 1864	35
⚔	William H. Smith	Private, USMC	5 August 1864
⚔	John Wade	Captain of the Afterguard	24 April 1862	40
✚	James Webby	Captain of the Mizzen-top	8 May 1862	27
⚔	Thomas White	Captain of the Maintop	24 April 1862
⚔ ⋂	Thomas Williams	Seaman	5 August 1864	22

⚔ 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