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The contract to build Stonewall Jackson was awarded to Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo, California, on 21 July 1961 and her keel was laid down there on 4 July 1962.. She was launched on 30 November 1963, sponsored by Miss Julia Christian McAfee, great-granddaughter of General Jackson, [1] [2] and commissioned on 26 August 1964, with Commander John H. Nicholson in command of the Blue Crew ...
USS Semmes (DD-189) (destroyer) 21 February 1920: 2 June 1946: USS Semmes (DDG-18) (guided-missile destroyer) 30 November 1962: 14 April 1991: Stonewall Jackson (Confederate general) USS Stonewall (1863) (tender, blockade runner) February 1863: May 1865: Captured, former confederate name retained. [8] USS Stonewall (IX-185) (tanker) 18 ...
USS Stonewall is a name used more than once by the United States Navy: USS Stonewall (1863) , a schooner captured by the Union Navy and placed in service as a ship's tender. USS Stonewall (IX-185) , a tanker built in 1921 at Alameda, California , by the Bethlehem Steel Company.
CSS Stonewall Jackson was a cottonclad sidewheel ram of the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. Stonewall Jackson was selected in January 1862, by Capt. James E. Montgomery to be part of his River Defense Fleet at New Orleans. On 25 January Montgomery began to convert her into a cottonclad ram by placing a 4-inch (100 mm) oak sheath ...
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Confederate forces under Major General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson cleared Union forces under Major General Nathaniel Banks and Brigadier General William S. Rosecrans from the lower Shenandoah Valley and surrounding Allegheny ranges, and then successfully severed the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
Stonewall was a Southern pilot boat captured by Union screw gunboat USS Tahoma on, or sometime shortly before, 24 February 1863. She was placed in service as a tender to Tahoma pending legal proceedings against her at Key West, Florida.
Jackson and the Stonewall Brigade operated in the Valley as part of the left wing of Johnston's army. During Jackson's Valley Campaign, Jackson's only defeat of the Civil War occurred at the First Battle of Kernstown on March 25, 1862. After receiving faulty intelligence, the brigade was ordered to attack a much larger Union force.