USS Hartford

The USS Hartford was a screw sloop-of-war that was built at the Boston Navy Yard, launched 22 November 1858 and commissioned 27 May 1859.

She served as David Farragut's flag ship when he commanded the West Gulf Blockading Squadron. She arrived on station at Ship Island on 20 February 1862 and remained until the end of 1864 except for between 1 August 1863 and 17 January 1864 when Hartford was ordered to New York for battle damage repairs.

USS Hartford on NavSource

Deck Log

Patrols

Actions

Deaths

	Name	Rate/Rank	Date of Death	Age
⚔	James Alexander	Landsman	5 August 1864	23
⚔	William E. Andrews	Captain of the Afterguard	5 August 1864	31
⚔	Thomas Bain	Ordinary Seaman	5 August 1864	24
⚔	William H. Brown	Landsman	24 April 1862	23
⚔ 〰	Thomas F. Butler	Private, USMC	14 March 1863
	John Cameron	Ordinary Seaman	15 July 1862	28
⚔	Francis Campbell	Fireman 2nd Class	5 August 1864	30
⚔	Henry Clark	First Class Boy	5 August 1864	16
⚔	David Curtin	Landsman	5 August 1864	21
	William Devereux	Seaman	12 January 1864	20
✚	Edward Donnelly	Quartermaster	30 May 1862
⚔	Dennis Driscoll	Landsman	19 March 1863
⚔	Peter Duncan	Coal Heaver	5 August 1864	32
✚	William Eldin	Seaman	31 August 1864	31
	John W. Fisk	Captain of the Top	16 July 1862
✚ ⋂	William H. Gamble	3rd Assistant Engineer	26 August 1862
	Theodore Gunn	Ordinary Seaman	23 September 1862	18
⚔	Benjamin Harper	Seaman	5 August 1864	25
⚔ ⋂	William Hawkins	Seaman	8 July 1864	24
✚	George Heisler	2LT, USMC	12 July 1862
✚ ⋂	William Harve Higinbotham	Acting Ensign	6 August 1864
〰	Welling Hodgkins	Landsman	3 March 1863	18
	Joseph Hopkins	Landsman	4 February 1862
✚	Leonard E. House	1st Class Boy	18 February 1864	17
	Charles Jackson	Ordinary Seaman	15 July 1862	20
⚔	Edward E. Jennings	Seaman	28 June 1863	26
✚	Levi Johnson	Contraband	29 June 1863
⚔	William Jones	Ordinary Seaman	1 April 1863	32
✚	Herbert H. Judson	Acting Master's Mate	22 January 1863
✚	Robert A. King	Quartermaster	21 March 1863	26
	Valentine Knoch	Orderly Sergeant, USMC	6 August 1862
⚔	Joseph Lawrence	Seaman	24 April 1862	22
⚔	Lewis McLane	Landsman	5 August 1864	21
✚	John McLaughlin (alias John D. Barnes)	Fireman 2nd Class	4 May 1863	27
⚔	David Morrow	Quarter Gunner	5 August 1864	39
⚔	Frederick Munsell	Landsman	5 August 1864	21
⚔	James Burleigh Osgood	Ordinary Seaman	5 August 1864	19
✚	Peter Pitts	Landsman	29 August 1864	21
✚ ⋂	William Preston	Quartermaster	19 May 1862
⚔	Adolphus Pulle	Seaman	5 August 1864	23
✚ ⋂	James Ramsbottom (alias Charles Melville)	Ordinary Seaman	5 January 1867
	John P. Reed	Coal Heaver	12 February 1862
⚔	Charles E. Schaefer	Ordinary Seaman	5 August 1864	28
⚔	John C. Scott	Ordinary Seaman	5 August 1864	22
⚔	Andrew E. Smith	Coal Heaver	5 August 1864	35
⚔	William Smith	Landsman	5 August 1864	18
⚔	Thomas Staunton	Seaman	5 August 1864	26
⚔	Charles Stephenson	2nd Class Boy	5 August 1864
⚔	George Stilwell	Nurse	5 August 1864	21
⚔	Albert Stone	Landsman	19 March 1863
	John Swain	Ordinary Seaman	14 October 1862	20
⚔	Charles Sweeney	Landsman	19 March 1863	21
✚ ⋂	Rondell Tahaperro	Landsman	13 July 1862	40
✚	William B. Tarlton	Ordinary Seaman	14 August 1862	21
⚔	Augustus Thomas	Captain of the Forecastle	25 April 1862	29
⚔	George Walker	Landsman	5 August 1864	22
⚔	Thomas Wildes	Landsman	5 August 1864	23
✚	Michael Walsh	Private, USMC	29 August 1863
✚	William H. Woodbury	Ordinary Seaman	7 September 1862	36
✚	Nathaniel Wright	Ordinary Seaman	14 September 1862

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

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