Sherwood

Mariners' Museum, Uncurated Search Results

Type: Schooner Barge

Year: 1919

Builder: Coastwise Shipbuilding Co.

Location: Baltimore

Eastern Shore
Sailing Workboats

ESSW Home

Chesapeake Shipbuilding Project

These records are found in the online catalog of The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News, Virginia. Uncurated search results are presented to give researchers and interested readers an idea of whether the museum’s archives contain information about this vessel and whether it may be worthwhile to visit the museum’s catalog search page for further investigation. Uncurated results may be inaccurate or incomplete.

Search mode: Type+Name and Schooner+Name. Search phrase(s): "Schooner Barge Sherwood"; "Schooner Sherwood". Results returned: 2. Results displayed in this table: 2.

Use these buttons to send uncurated search results to your own app or text document for further research. First, check the box for any row, or click "Select All" then uncheck any rows. Then click "Show Selections". You can then copy your selections from the text box and past them into your app.

Fetch?	Row ID	Media	Date	Vessel	Place	Related Places	Inscription/Marks	Subject	Notes	Archive Number
	1		12/29/1861	Sherwood (Schooner : 1857).; Congress (Frigate : 1859).; Minnesota (Frigate : 1861).; Whitehall (Side wheel gunboat : 1861).; Young America (Screw tug : 1857).; Louisiana (Side wheel steamer : 1861).; Sea Bird (Side wheel steamer : 1861).; Express (Paddle steamer : 1841).; Brooklyn (Screw sloop-of-war : 1859).; Morse (Side wheel gunboat : 1861).; Delaware (Side wheel steamer : 1861).		Fort Monroe (Va.).; Newport News (Va.).; United States–History–Naval operations, Confederate. Civil War, 1861-1865		Journalistic errors–United States.	Newspaper clipping enclosed in letter from Edwin Orr to his family written on Jan. 2, 1862. This newspaper clipping from the New York Herald gives two separate accounts from two correspondents of a rebel gunboat, which the newspaper calls the Northampton, capturing the Schooner Sherwood near Fort Monroe. According to the clipping, the tugboat was thought to have a truce flag until it began firing at the schooner Sherwood and at her tug, the steamer Express, and proceeding to capture it. The failed Union effort to retake the captured schooner lasted two hours. The New York Herald gave two separate reports of the same event, both present in the clipping. The accounts have factual errors, as well as the characterization of Orr himself as a "sick Zoave." Prisoner exchanges and other news are also covered in this article.	MS0652/-01.01#05
	2	No image URL.		Sherwood (Schooner : 1857).; United States. Army–Drill and tactics.; Express (Paddle steamer : 1841).; Sea Bird (Side wheel steamer : 1861).		Newport News (Va.).; Hampton Roads (Va. : Region).; Fort Monroe (Va.).; United States–History–Civil War, 1861-1865–Personal narratives.; United States–History–Naval operations, Confederate. Civil War, 1861-1865		Peninsular Campaign, 1862–Personal narratives.	The collection consists of four manuscript letters from Edwin F. Orr, 11th New York Infantry, to family members such as his parents, sisters, and brothers. The letters span the dates January to May, 1862, and are written from Newport News, VA. In addition, the collection contains a newspaper clipping from the New York Herald from Dec. 30, 1861, chronicling the attack on the Union steamer Express by the Confederate gunboat Sea Bird. --Two of the four letters and the clipping refer to the brief exchange on Dec. 29, 1861 between Express, her tow the schooner Sherwood, and Sea Bird. In the exchange, Sea Bird attacked Express and her charge en route to Fort Monroe with a supply of fresh water. Express, being fired upon by a 32-pounder gun, evidently cut her tow to avoid being sunk or taken, causing the schooner to be taken as a Confederate prize. Express and the crew of the Sherwood escaped, and Union efforts to rescue Sherwood proved unsuccessful. --The other two letters contain information about the massing of troops in Newport News as part of the Peninsular Campaign, and the preparation for the occupation of Norfolk on May 10, 1862.	MS0652