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Photo # NH 59288:  Bombardment of Ft. McAllister, Georgia, 3 March 1863.  USS Norfolk Packet is among the mortar schooners at left.

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USS Norfolk Packet (1862-1865)

USS Norfolk Packet, a 349-ton mortar schooner, was built in 1851 at East Haddam, Connecticut, as a civilian vessel. She was purchased by the Navy in September 1861 and commissioned in February 1862 after conversion to a warship. During the next several months, she operated on the lower Mississippi River, participating in bombardments of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, below New Orleans, in April and Vicksburg, Mississippi, in June and July.

Transferred to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron in November 1862, Norfolk Packet served off South Carolina, Georgia and Florida for the rest of the Civil War. She shelled Fort McAllister, Georgia, in March 1863 and later captured three sailing blockade runners. USS Norfolk Packet was decommissioned in July 1865 and sold a month later.

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Photo #: NH 59288

Bombardment of Fort McAllister, Georgia, 3 March 1863


Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", January-June 1863, page 196, depicting the bombardment of Fort McAllister by the U.S. Navy monitors Passaic, Patapsco and Nahant. The engraving is based on a sketch by "an eye-witness" on board USS Montauk, which is in the right center foreground. In the left foreground, firing on the fort, are the mortar schooners C.P. Williams, Norfolk Packet and Para. Among other U.S. Navy ships involved were gunboats Wissahickon, Seneca and Dawn and tug Dandelion.

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Photo #: NH 59287

Bombardment of Fort McAllister, Georgia, 3 March 1863


Line engraving, after a sketch by W.T. Crane, published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 39. It depicts the U.S. Navy monitors Patapsco, Passaic and Nahant firing on Fort McAllister (at far left) from the Ogeechee River. Other U.S. Navy ships are in the foreground. Montauk is the monitor in this group (farthest from the artist). Firing on the fort from the right foreground are mortar schooners, including C.P. Williams, Norfolk Packet and Para. Among other U.S. Navy ships involved were gunboats Wissahickon, Seneca and Dawn and tug Dandelion, all screw steamers.

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