USS Owasco
USS Owasco was a Unadilla-class "90 day gunboat" that was commissioned 23 January 1862 and send to the Gulf soon afterwards and remained on station during the entire war.
Shortly before the Battle of Mobile Bay, since the Owasco was laid up in the Pensacola Navy Yard for repairs to her boilers and unable to participate, a number of her officers and enlisted volunteered to replace Tecumseh crew members who were too ill to remain aboard her. Only one of them would survive the Tecumseh's sinking via a "torpedo" that Farragut famously dammed shortly afterwards and later imprisonment in Andersonville.
Deaths
| Name | Rate/Rank | Date of Death | |
|---|---|---|---|
| George C. Coffin | Acting Ensign | 11 October 1864 | |
| Camille Colon | - | 11 September 1862 | |
| ✚ | John W. Corsey | Landsman | 19 February 1865 |
| ✚ ⋂ | Titus Freeman | 1st Class Boy (contraband) | 15 January 1863 |
| ✚ ⋂ | Isaac P. Hughes | Seaman | 22 January 1863 |
| ⚔ | Thomas Jeff | Coxswain | 1 January 1863 |
| ✚ | Patrick McGiveny | Coal Heaver | 15 May 1864 |
| ✚ | Austin A. Miller | Coal Heaver | 17 April 1864 |
| Frederick Saunders | Ordinary Seaman | 21 January 1863 | |
| Christopher Scott | - | 18 September 1862 | |
| 〰 | John Stephens | Seaman | 3 November 1863 |
| ✚ | Walker M. Tomlinson | Acting Master's Mate | 21 July 1863 |
| 〰 | Charles W. Warriner | Landsman | 3 November 1863 |
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