USS Colorado

The USS Colorado was the flag ship of flag officer William Mervine when he commanded the Gulf Squadron before it was split into two.

The Colorado was on blockade duty off Mobile and Pensacola between 18 June 1861 to 21 June 1862 and 13 March 1863 to 4 February 1864

	Name	Rate/Rank	Date of Death	Age
✚ ⋂	Ezra Thurber Bailey	Captain's Clerk	4 August 1861
	Stephen Bennett	Gunner's Mate	22 December 1863	38
	Timothy Cisk	Landsman	13 June 1862	23
	Henry Cook	Seaman	15 August 1863	25
✚ ⋂	Charles Henry Covell	Assistant Surgeon	7 August 1861
✚	Josiah Craw	Landsman	26 July 1863	25
◼	George Derbyshire	Private, USMC	4 October 1863	21
◼	William Henry Gilman	Private, USMC	2 September 1863
◼	Walter E. Had	Paymaster's Clerk	24 August 1863
⚔ ⋂	John R. Herning	Seaman	14 September 1861	23
〰	Frank Holstein	Seaman	14 April 1863	30
◼	John O. James	Nurse	4 September 1863	17
◼	Jacob Keek	Private, USMC	31 August 1863
⚔ ⋂	Charles H. Lamphere	Boatswain's Mate	14 September 1861	23
	John Lewis	Ordinary Seaman	7 May 1862	23
	James H. Moore	Officer's Cook	21 November 1861	35
◼	George Morris	Private, USMC	4 September 1863
◼	Frederick O. Norton	Private, USMC	13 November 1863	21
	Timothy O'Sullivan	Landsman	27 October 1863	21
	Zachariah L. Sawyer	Landsman	27 May 1862	33
	John Scheel	Ordinary Seaman	21 November 1861	22
⚔ ⋂	John Smith	Private, USMC	14 September 1861
✚	John Sullivan	Landsman	11 July 1863	25
◼	Charles E. Winters	Private, USMC	30 August 1863
	William M. Young	1st Class Boy	15 January 1864

⚔ 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