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Uss Carondelet (1861) | align="center" colspan="2"| | | lign ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career | align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|United States Navy Jack | | aunched: | 1861 | | ommissioned: | January 15, 1862 | | ecommissioned: | June 20, 1865 | | ate: | Sold November 29, 1865 | | olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics | | isplacement: | 512 tons | | ength: | 175 feet | | eam: | 51 feet 2 inches | | raught: | 6 feet | | ropulsion: | Steam engine | | peed: | 4 knots | | omplement: | 251 officers and men | | rmament: | 6 32-pounder cannons, 3 8" smoothbore cannons, 4 42-pounder rifled cannons, 1 12-pounder howitzer | - See also USS Carondelet (IX-136)
USS Carondelet, an ironclad river gunboat, was built in 1861 by James Eads and Co., St. Louis, Missouri, under contract to the United States Department of War. Carondelet was commissioned January 15, 1862 at Cairo, Illinois, naval Captain Henry A. Walke in command, and reported to Western Gunboat Flotilla (Army), commanded by naval Flag Officer Andrew Hull Foote. Between January and October 1862, Carondelet operated almost constantly on river patrol and in the capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in February; the passing of Island No. 10 and the attack on and spiking of the shore batteries below New Madrid, Missouri in April; the lengthy series of operations against Plum Point Bend, Fort Pillow, and Memphis, Tennessee from April through June, and the engagement with CSS Arkansas on July 15, during which Carondelet was heavily damaged and suffered 35 casualties. Transferred to United States Department of the Navy control with the other ships of her flotilla on October 1, 1862, Carondelet continued the rapid pace of her operations, taking part in the unsuccessful Steele's Bayou Expedition in March 1863. One of those to pass the Vicksburg and Warrenton, Mississippi batteries in April 1863, Carondelet took part on April 29 in the five and one-half hour engagement with the batteries at Grand Gulf. She remained on duty off Vicksburg, hurling fire at the city in its long seige from May to July. Without her and her sisters and other naval forces, the great operations on the rivers would not have been possible and the United States victory might not have been won. From March 7 to May 15, 1864, she sailed with the Red River Expedition, and during operations in support of Army movements ashore, took part in the Bell's Mill engagement of December 1864. For the remainder of the war, Carondelet patrolled in the Cumberland River. She was decommissioned at Mound City, Illinois on June 20, 1865, and sold there on November 29, 1865. Carondelet
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