Tag: side-wheeler Fulton

Photographed at Port Royal Sound, SC, 1863-1865.

Gibson and Gibson, Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels Steam and Sail Employed by the Union Army, 1861
-1868 says: Fulton; steamer; 2300 tons; 2308 tons; armed. This was in all probability the same FULTON which was hired for the Army Ordnance Bureau on an affreightment basis to transport twenty thousand rifles of Prussian design from Southampton, England, in Nov of 1861. Chartered Feb 15-Aug 21, 1862; Mar 20, 1863-July 15, 1865. Captured blockade runner MARGARET AND JESSIE on Nov. 3, 1863. Captured blockade runner G. O. BIGELOW on Dec. 9, 1863, while off Carolina coast. Assisted in attempt to capture another blockade runner Sept. 26, 1864, off Cape Lookout. Engaged in servicing Port Royal Nov. 1864. Report of CSS SHENANDOAH chasing FULTON off Charleston, South Carolina. Entered Charleston at time of that city’s occupation Feb 1865.