HCR 21 – AS INTRODUCED
2011 SESSION
09/03
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 21
A RESOLUTION urging the US Army Corps of Engineers to donate a portion of the wreckage of the USS Chickasaw, which served in the Civil War, to the state of New Hampshire.
SPONSORS: Rep. S. Lindsey, Ches 3
COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
This house concurrent resolution urges the US Army Corps of Engineers to donate a portion of the wreckage of the USS Chickasaw, which served in the Civil War, to the state of New Hampshire in honor of its lieutenant commander, Commodore George Hamilton Perkins.
11-0878
09/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eleven
A RESOLUTION urging the US Army Corps of Engineers to donate a portion of the wreckage of the USS Chickasaw, which served in the Civil War, to the state of New Hampshire.
Whereas, the USS Chickasaw, commissioned in 1864, was a monitor in the United States Navy during the American Civil War; and
Whereas, between May 14 and June 30 of 1864, the USS Chickasaw patrolled on the Mississippi River and after sailing to New Orleans, joined the West Gulf Blockading Squadron on July 9; and
Whereas, while operating the Squadron, she participated in Admiral David Farragut’s victory in the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, during which she was struck by enemy shells 11 times, and in the attacks on Fort Gaines on August 6 and Fort Morgan on August 13; and
Whereas, the USS Chickasaw remained in the vicinity of Mobile Bay until July 3, 1865, when she sailed down river for New Orleans where she was decommissioned on July 6, 1865, later bearing the name of Samson and then again reverted to Chickasaw, and was sold to civilians on September 12, 1874; and
Whereas, Commodore George Hamilton Perkins, a native of New Hampshire, was a commander of the USS Chickasaw during her Civil War service on the Mississippi River and during the Battle of Mobile Bay; and
Whereas, the USS Chickasaw spent her last years as a work barge near New Orleans, sinking in the 1950s; and
Whereas the wreckage of the USS Chickasaw was recently discovered; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
That the New Hampshire general court urges the US Army Corps of Engineers to take the necessary steps to donate a portion of the wreckage of the USS Chickasaw to the state of New Hampshire for display in the New Hampshire state house in honor of its commander, Commodore George Hamilton Perkins; and
That the clerk of the New Hampshire house of representatives transmit a copy of this resolution, signed by the speaker of the house of representatives and the senate president, to the US Army Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the US Army Corps of Engineers and each member of the New Hampshire congressional delegation.