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USS Neosho
The_United_States_Monitor_'Neosho'_Engaging_Three_Rebel_Batteries_on_the_Cumberland,_Below
The_United_States_Monitor_'Neosho'_Engaging_Three_Rebel_Batteries_on_the_Cumberland,_Below
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Neosho engaging Confederate artillery
on the Cumberland River, 6 December 1864
Builder: Union Iron Works
Carondelet, Missouri
Laid Down: mid 1862
Launched: 18 February 1863
Completed: 1 July 1863
Commissioned: 13 May 1863
Cairo, Illinois
Decommissioned: 23 July 1865 Mound City, Illinois
Sticken: 1873
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General Characteristics
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Class and Type: Neosho-class River Monitor
Tons: 523
Length: 180 ft
Beam: 45 ft
Draft: 4 ft 6 in
Depth of Hold: 9 ft
Installed Power: 400 ihp
4 x boilers
Propulsion: 1 x stern wheel
1 x horizontal steam engine
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Armament
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2 x 11-inch smoothbore Dahlgren guns
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Battles
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Red River Campaign
Blair's Landing
Franklin-Nashville Campaign
Bell's Mills, Tennessee
Battle of Nashville
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