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{{short description|Sloops-of-war of the United States Navy}}
{{other ships|USS Mohican}}

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The first '''USS ''Mohican''''' was a steam [[sloop-of-war]] in the [[United States Navy]] during the [[American Civil War]]. She was named for the [[Mohican]] tribe and was the first ship of her class.

''Mohican'' was laid down by [[Portsmouth Navy Yard]], [[Kittery, Maine]], in August 1858; launched on 15 February 1859; and commissioned on 29 November 1859, [[Commander (United States)|Commander]] [[Sylvanus William Godon]] in command.

==Pre-Civil War==

===African Squadron, 1859–1861===
Assigned to the [[African Squadron]], ''Mohican'' departed Portsmouth on 19 January 1860 for the South Atlantic and for the next year and one-half cruised on patrol against pirates and slavers off the coasts of Africa and at times [[Brazil]]. On 8 August, the sloop captured the slaver ''Erie'' — commanded by [[Nathaniel Gordon]] — off the [[Kingdom of Kongo|Congo]] and forced that ship to unload its captive cargo at [[Monrovia, Liberia]]. She remained on station until sailing for home on 13 August 1861.

==Civil War==

===Battle of Port Royal, 1861===
Following her arrival at [[Boston, Massachusetts]] on 27 September, she sailed to join [[Flag officer#United States|Flag Officer]] [[Samuel Francis du Pont|Samuel Du Pont]]'s [[South Atlantic Blockading Squadron]] off [[Sandy Hook, New Jersey]]. Departing [[Norfolk, Virginia]] on 29 October for [[Port Royal, South Carolina]], as part of the [[Battle of Port Royal|largest U.S. naval squadron]] assembled to that time, the sloop steamed in the battleline on 7 November as Du Pont's squadron pounded [[Fort Walker (Hilton Head)|Fort Walker]] on [[Hilton Head Island]], forcing the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]]s to abandon the emplacement, thereby allowing a combined Union [[United States Army|Army]] and Navy Force to land and occupy this important base of operations. ''Mohican'' was hit six times by Confederate shells in this engagement, suffering superficial hull damage and having one man killed and seven wounded. One of the wounded officers was [[Brevet (military)|Acting]] [[Master (naval)|Master]] [[Isaac D. Seyburn]].

===Blockade duty, 1861–1862===
The steamer sailed to [[Charleston Bar]] at the end of November accompanying part of the "[[Stone Fleet]]", and stood by while these ships were scuttled on 18–19 December to obstruct channels to Confederate ports in the Carolinas and [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]. The warship then operated off the southern coast with steamer {{USS|Bienville|1861|6}}, searching for Confederate shipping, capturing British [[blockade runner]] ''Arrow'' off [[Fernandina, Florida]] on 25 February 1862. In company with sloop {{USS|Pocahontas|1852|2}} and schooner {{USS|Potomska|1861|6}}, she took possession of [[St. Simons Island]] and [[Jekyll Island]] near [[Brunswick, Georgia]] on 9–10 March, but found them deserted because of a general Confederate withdrawal from the seacoast and coastal islands. In early April, ''Mohican'' reconnoitered the [[Wilmington River]] to determine the best way of obstructing it, helping to cut off [[Fort Pulaski]] from [[Savannah, Georgia|Savannah]] as part of the projected attack on that fort and then operated out of [[St. Simons Bay, Georgia]], on blockade until ordered to [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] on 29 June. The ship decommissioned there on 9 July.

====Hunting the raiders, 1862–1864====
''Mohican'' recommissioned on 17 October and five days later was ordered on special service chasing the Confederate raiders [[CSS Florida (cruiser)|CSS ''Florida'']] and {{Ship|CSS|Alabama||2}}. Sailing immediately, the steamer cruised on station from the [[Cape Verde Islands]] to the [[Cape of Good Hope]] operating off the coasts of Africa and South America into 1864. She returned to Philadelphia on 14 April 1864 without contacting the elusive enemy  and was decommissioned there two weeks later.

===Battles of Fort Fisher, 1864–1865===
Reactivated on 7 October, the warship was assigned to [[Rear admiral (United States)|Rear Admiral]] [[David Dixon Porter]]'s [[North Atlantic Blockading Squadron]] and cruised off [[Wilmington, North Carolina]] through December. She then joined the rest of the squadron in the [[First Battle of Fort Fisher|attack on Fort Fisher]] on 24–25 December, firing over 500 shells in the fierce bombardment. ''Mohican'' resumed her blockade, now off [[Beaufort, North Carolina]], until the [[Second Battle of Fort Fisher|second attack on Fort Fisher]] from 13–15 January 1865. As part of the first line of battle, the sloop bombarded the Confederate bastion throughout the three-day campaign, supplying covering fire for the landings on the second and third days until the fort was taken on the 15th. During the engagement, ''Mohican'' lost one man killed and 10 wounded.

===End of the war, 1865===
The warship was ordered to Rear Adm. [[John A. Dahlgren|John Dahlgren]]'s [[South Atlantic Blockading Squadron]] on 17 January, carrying dispatches for [[General (United States)|General]] [[William T. Sherman]]. She began blockading off [[Ossabaw Island]], South Carolina on 3 February and remained there until ordered north on the 24th. The steam sloop decommissioned at [[Boston Navy Yard]] on 26 April and remained there — repairing — until recommissioning on 18 August 1866.

==Post-Civil War==

===Pacific Squadron, 1865–1872===
The sloop was then assigned to the [[Pacific Squadron]] and departed 6 September for the west coast, steaming via [[Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands|St. Thomas]], ports in Brazil, [[Montevideo]], round Cape Horn, to [[Valparaíso]], joining Rear Adm. Dahlgren in {{USS|Powhatan|1850|2}} at [[Callao, Peru]] on 25 April 1867 and then steaming up the Pacific coast, through [[Panama]] and the coast of Mexico, arriving at [[San Francisco, California]] on 28 July.

''Mohican'' remained on the Pacific coast through 1872, cruising to South America in the fall and winter of 1867 and then decommissioning from 3 April 1868 – 7 June 1869 at [[Mare Island Navy Yard]]. The warship made one cruise to Siberia and the northwest coast during the summer of 1869 and then departed on 11 October to cruise to [[Hawaii]], returning on 11 January 1870. She then made a second cruise to the Pacific Northwest and in May sailed to patrol off Mexico. On 17 June 1870, men from ''Mohican'' attacked the Mexican pirate steamer ''[[HMS Forward (1855)|Forward]]'', which had terrorized the coast for the previous month. In a fierce gun [[Battle of Boca Teacapan|battle]] between ''Mohican''{{'}}s armed boats and the outlaw vessel off [[Mazatlán]], the [[pirate]] was boarded and captured. The sloop continued her cruise as far south as Callao through August 1871, returning on the 25th. The warship made one more cruise along the coast of Mexico to Panama from October–April 1872.

''Mohican'' decommissioned at Mare Island on 25 June 1872 and by the end of the year had sunk at her moorings. She was subsequently towed onto the Mare Island mud flats and broken up.

==See also==
{{Portal|American Civil War}}
*[[Union Navy]]
*[[Battle of Boca Teacapan]]

==References==
*{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/m/mohican-i.html}}
{{1872 shipwrecks}}
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