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The USS Mohican was a made-to-order US naval ship. It was not pressed into service or a converted blockade-runner.
It was commissioned before the war, in Nov. 1859 and decommissioned in 1872. After serving in the African Squadron intercepting slave ships, it was at the Battle of Fort Walker at Hilton Head, SC and accompanied the "Stone Fleet" to being sunk Dec. 18th and 19th, 1861, off Charleston, SC.
It then participated in the chases of the Confederate raiders Florida and Alabama before joining Admiral Porter's North Atlantic Blockading Squadron Oct. 7, 1864. Between Dec. 24th-25th it fired 500 shells at Fort Fisher.
During the second attack, Jan. 13-15th, it was in the first line of battle and lost one man killed and ten wounded.
After the war, the USS Mohican was in the Pacific Squadron. Decommissioned in 1872, it sank at its moorings and was towed to the Mare Island mud flats and broken up.
Stats: 198.9 feet long, 33 feet beam, 160 crew, two 11-inch and four 32-pdrs.
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The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
