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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)
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