USS Augusta Dinsmore

The Augusta Dinsmore was steamer acquired by the Navy and commissioned around 21 July 1863 and assigned to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, reaching New Orleans in December 1863.

She was used primary as a dispatch and supply steamer on the New Orleans to Texas route.

The Augusta Dinsmore was decommissioned on 28 August 1865 and sold at auction.

  • USS Augusta Dinsmore on Wikipedia

    • Deaths

      Name Rate/Rank Date of Death Age
    ✚ ⋂Thomas FletcherSeaman22 October 186422
    ✚ ⋂Edward KensingtonCoal Heaver21 July 186530
    John MontgomeryLandsman13 July 186426
    ✚Edward B. Warren1st Class Fireman11 November 186429
    〰George C. WhitneySeaman16 March 186419

    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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