USS Alonzo Child (1857) [SEP] conflict
USS Alonzo Child
USS "Alonzo Child" (1857) was a side-wheel steamer seized by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a barracks ship in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.
"Alonzo Child", in the service of the Confederacy.
"Childs", "A. Child", "A. Childs", "Child", and "Childs" — was a large side-wheel "river boat" built in 1857
daughter. They had one surviving child, Abraham Elliot Hart, as well as a son and daughter who died in infancy. In 1857 he joined the local Masonic lodge and rose to the rank of Master.
Naval career.
Hart was appointed a midshipman in the Navy on February 2, 1841. He served in the Brazil Squadron aboard USS "Marion" and USS "John Adams", and in 1846 he circumnavigated the globe aboard USS "Constitution". In late 1846 he was admitted to the newly opened