Frederick Munsell (1843 - 1864)

Born Apr 1843 in Connecticut, USA

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Biography

killed on flagship "Hartford" at Mobile under Admiral Farragut in the war of the rebellion in August 1864

Sources

• No. 3825, pg 519 - Hollister Family of America compiled by Lafayette Wallace Case, MD 1886 - https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=5eNUAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA1
• No. 1183 iii - Genealogy of the Munsell Family (Munsill, Monsell, Maunsell) in America - https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=h_s4AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA581
• 1850 United States Census, data base with images, Ancestry.com (2009) (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 15 Oct 2018), Frederick Munsell in the household of Timothy E Munsell. Manchester, Hartford, Connecticut; Roll: M432_41; Page: 445A; Image: 631
• 1860 United States Census, data base with images, Ancestry.com (2009) (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 15 Oct 2018), Frederick Munsell in the household of Timothy Munsell. Manchester, Hartford, Connecticut; Roll: M653_77; Page: 413; Family History Library Film: 803077.
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 15 October 2018), memorial page for Frederick E Munsell (unknown–5 Aug 1864), Find A Grave Memorial no. 96686761, ; Maintained by Rubbings (contributor 47671529) Body lost or destroyed, who reports a USS Hartford.

Frederick E Munsell, Landsman, US Navy, Civil War, Lost his Life on board USS Hartford. Died from Gunshot Wounds,

U.S. Navy Pensions Index, 1861-1910 about Frederick E Munsell Name: Frederick E Munsell Publication: M1274 Pension Approval: Disapproved File Number: 18580 Certification Number: 3476 Fiche Number: 1043

U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles about Frederick Munsell Name: Frederick Munsell Enlistment Date: 12 Jan 1863 Rank at enlistment: Landsman State Served: UN Survived the War?: No Service Record: Enlisted in the UN Navy on 01 Dec 1863. Mustered out on 05 Aug 1864. Sources: Connecticut: Record of Service of Men during War of Rebellion

USS Hartford, a sloop-of-war, was the first ship of the United States Navy named for Hartford, the capital of Connecticut.

Hartford was launched 22 November 1858 at the Boston Navy Yard; sponsored by Miss Carrie Downes, Miss Lizzie Stringham, and Lieutenant G. J. H. Preble; and commissioned 27 May 1859, Captain Charles Lowndes in command.

Battle of Mobile Bay, 1864

With the Mississippi River now opened, Farragut turned his attention to Mobile, a Confederate industrial center still building ships and turning out war supplies. The Battle of Mobile Bay took place on 5 August 1864. Farragut, with Hartford as his flagship, led a fleet consisting of four ironclad monitors and 14 wooden vessels. The Confederate naval force was composed of newly built ram Tennessee, Admiral Franklin Buchanan's flagship, and gunboats Selma, Morgan, and Gaines; and backed by the powerful guns of Forts Morgan and Gaines in the Bay. From the firing of the first gun by Fort Morgan to the raising of the white flag of surrender by Tennessee little more than three hours elapsed—but three hours of terrific fighting on both sides. The Confederates had only 32 casualties, while the Union forces suffered 335 casualties, including 113 men drowned in Tecumseh when the monitor struck a torpedo and sank.