Allard Family
U.S.S. Underwriter
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Fireman - A man who manages fires. On board vessels of war firemen
are divided into two classes, viz., first and second class firemen.
A first-class fireman is required to be thoroughly skilled in making,
maintaining, and cleaning fires with all the varieties of coal in
general use, and in all the preparations for starting fires and raising
steam in boilers. He must be acquainted with the methods of
keeping the water in boilers at the proper height and density; be
familiar with the various cocks and valves in common use in marine
machinery; capable of packing stuffing-boxes, making steam joints,
"laying up" and preparing packing, cleaning bright-work, and starting or
stopping and lubricating either the main or auxiliary engines or pumps.
Official Records of the Union and Confederate
Navies in the War of the Rebellion
Capture and destruction of the U. S. S. Underwriter by
Confederate boat Expedition under Commander Wood, C. S. Navy, in Neuse
River, North Carolina, February 2, 1864.
Capture of the USS Underwriter
In the Neuse River, off Newbern, N. C., February, 1864
By Surgeon Daniel B. Conrad, CSN
U.S.S. Underwriter
Histories of the several regiments and
battalions from North Carolina, in the great war
Capture of the Underwriter, New Bern, February 1864, by B.P.Loyall,
Commander C.S.N.
New York Tribune - 8 February 1864
How the Gunboat Underwriter was Destroyed
Cleveland Morning Leader -
8 February 1864
From Newbern
Daily National Intelligencer
(Washington, DC) - 8 February 1864
Capture of the Gunboat Underwriter
Boston Post -11 February 1864
Loss of the Underwriter
The Daily Richmond Dispatch - 12 February
1864
The expedition in North Carolina--the fight at Newbern.
[from our own correspondent.] Kinston, N. C., Feb.8.
Charleston Mercury - 19 February 1864
The Newbern Expedition - Capture of the
Underwriter
Philadelphia Inquirer - 26
February 1864
The Underwriter Prisoners
Richmond Whig - 26
February 1864
How the Gunboat Underwriter was Destroyed
Columbian Register (New Haven, CT) -
12 March 1864
The Body of Captain Westervelt
Providence Evening Press - 26
October 1864
Death of a Providence Prisoner