![]() ![]() 1860s life was tough for George and his family. George was a 40-year-old Machinist living in New York when he enlisted in February 1864. One of them was English emigrant George Chapman, who served on USS Tecumseh. By April 1865 you could hardly move for them-at that date more than 30 percent of Carondelet’s sailors had been born in England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales.īeyond the crews, the work of our volunteers is also telling us a huge amount about the sailors, their backgrounds, and their families. We now know that in the early part of her service, Carondelet did not have large numbers of European immigrants on her crew, but this gradually changed as the war went on. By looking at her muster rolls, we can see how the makeup of her crew changed during the war, and consider what that might have meant for those aboard. Carondelet spent most of her war on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, fighting in some of the most famous naval engagements of the whole conflict. Take for example the USS Carondelet, which was one of the best-known Union ironclads of the Civil War. ![]() We are beginning to be able to reconstruct the ethnic and racial mix that was present on different ships at different times during the war-factors that could play an important role in how men experienced life within their “shipboard community”. The work of our transcribers is already producing invaluable information about both ship crews and the individual sailors themselves. ![]()
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