USS Kickapoo
The Kickapoo was a double-turreted river monitor, laid down in 1862, launched 12 March 1864 and commissioned 8 July 1864. She was initially assigned to the Mississippi River Squadron but was re-assigned to the West Gulf Squadron on 1 October 1864.
She remained in service until she was decommissioned in New Orleans 29 July 1865.
Deaths
Name | Rate/Rank | Date of Death | Age | |
---|---|---|---|---|
⋂ | Marion Boughner | Ordinary Seaman | 26 January 1865 | 21 |
✚ | James C. Harris | Ordinary Seaman | 23 March 1865 | 20 |
✚ | Frank R. Martin | Coal Heaver | 9 April 1865 | 18 |
✚ ⋂ | Daniel McLane | Quarter Gunner | 21 January 1865 | 27 |
Josiah A. Prickett | Ordinary Seaman | 14 November 1864 | 31 | |
✚ | Charles F. Waldemar | Acting Ensign | October 1864 |
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