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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Red Rover (1862-1865)
USS Red Rover, a 625-ton side-wheel river steamer, was
built for commercial use at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in 1859.
She served as CSS Red
Rover in 1861-62 and was captured on 7 April 1862 at Island
Number Ten by USS Mound City.
Following repairs, she was placed in service as a hospital ship
for the U.S. Army's Western Gunboat Flotilla in June 1862. She
served in this role through the summer of 1862, and was purchased
by the Navy at the end of September.
Commissioned as USS Red Rover in December 1862, she
was used for the rest of the Civil War as hospital ship for the
Mississippi Squadron. Her medical complement included nurses from
the Catholic order Sisters of the Holy Cross, the first female
nurses to serve on board a Navy ship. In addition to caring for
and transporting sick and wounded men, she provided medical supplies
to Navy ships along the Western Rivers. Red Rover was stationed
at Mound City, Illinois, from December 1864 until November 1865,
when she was decommissioned and sold.
This page features views of USS Red Rover and provides
links to other pictures related to her.
For additional images related to this ship, see: USS Red Rover -- On Board, Crew and
Related Views.
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 49980
USS Red Rover (1862-1865)
On the Western Rivers during the Civil War, with an ice boat
tied up alongside her port side.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 380 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 59653
USS Red Rover (1862-1865)
Photographed tied up to the shore on the Western Rivers during
the Civil War.
Firewood is stacked in the foreground.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 115KB; 740 x 590 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 60501
USS Red Rover (1862-1865)
Tied up astern of USS General Sterling Price, on the Western
Rivers during the Civil War.
Note derelict machinery in the foreground.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 93KB; 740 x 565 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 60500
USS Red Rover (1862-1865)
Photographed on the Western Rivers during the Civil War, with
two rowing boats alongside.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 470 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 49981
USS Red Rover (1862-1865)
Moored to a Western Rivers' shoreline, during the Civil War.
Note awning spread over the ship's foredeck, and bell at the
front of her superstructure.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 95KB; 740 x 525 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 55837
USS Red Rover (1862-1865)
Sepia wash drawing by F. Muller, circa 1900.
Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 380 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 65458
USS Red Rover (1862-1865)
Pen and ink drawing by Samuel Ward Stanton.
Collections of the Navy Department, 1967.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 127KB; 740 x 630 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 58718
USS Red Rover (1862-1865)
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1863.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 95KB; 740 x 385 pixels |
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For additional images related to this ship, see: USS Red Rover -- On Board, Crew and
Related Views.
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16 January 2000