The following lists the organization of the Union and Confederate forces engaged at the Battle of Roanoke Island, during the American Civil War on February 7–8, 1862. [1]
Coast Division (Brig. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside)
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron (Flag Officer Louis M. Goldsborough)
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USS Philadelphia | Squadron Flagship, "being unfit for the purpose took no part in the engagement" [2] | |
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USS Southfield | Acting Volunteer Lieutenant C. F. W. Behm [2] | Flag Officer Goldsborough embarked [2] |
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USS Delaware | Lieutenant S. P. Quackenbush [2] | Commander S. C. Rowan, division commander [2] |
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USS Stars and Stripes | Lieutenant Reed Werden [3] | |
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USS Louisiana | Lieutenant A. Murray [3] | |
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USS Hetzel | Lieutenant H. K. Davenport [3] | |
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USS Underwriter | Lieutenant W. N. Jeffers [3] | |
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USS Commodore Perry | Lieutenant C. W. Flusser [3] | |
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USS Valley City | Lieutenant J. C. Chaplin [3] | |
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USS Commodore Barney | Acting Volunteer Lieutenant R. T. Renshaw [3] | |
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USS Hunchback | Acting Volunteer Lieutenant E. R. Colhoun [3] | |
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USS Morse | Acting Master Peter Hayes [2] | |
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USS Whitehead | Acting Master Charles French [2] | |
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USS John L. Lockwood | Acting Master G. W. Graves [2] | |
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USS Henry Brinker | Acting Master John E. Giddings [2] | |
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USS Isaac N. Seymour | Acting Master F. S. Wells [2] | |
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USS Ceres | Acting Master John McDiarmid [2] | |
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USS General Putnam | Acting Master W. J. Hotchkiss [2] | |
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USS Shawsheen | Acting Master T. G. Woodward [2] | |
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USS Granite | Acting Master's Mate E. Boomer [2] |
Dist. of Roanoke — Brig. Gen. Henry A. Wise (not present in battle; ill)
(The Virginia regiments were part of the Wise Legion)
"Mosquito Fleet" (Flag Officer William F. Lynch)