USS John P. Jackson (1860)
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  United States
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| Name: | John P. Jackson |
| Laid down: | date unknown |
| Launched: | 1860 at Brooklyn, New York |
| Acquired: | 6 November 1861 from the Jersey City Ferry Company |
| Commissioned: | 14 February 1862 at the New York Navy Yard |
| Decommissioned: | 5 September 1865 at New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Struck: | 1865 (est.) |
| Fate: | Sold, 27 September 1865 |
| Status: | redocumented J. P. Jackson 3 October 1865 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen: | 750 |
| Length: | 192 ft (59 m) |
| Beam: | 36 ft 6 in (11.13 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | steam engine, side wheel-propelled |
| Complement: | 99 |
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USS John P. Jackson (1860) was a steamship acquired by the United States Navy during the beginning of the American Civil War. She was assigned to the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America. as well as the bombardment of Mississippi River ports.
John P. Jackson was built at Brooklyn, New York, in 1860 and purchased by the Navy at Newark, New Jersey, from Jersey City Ferry Company on 6 November 1861. She was commissioned at New York Navy Yard on 14 February 1862, Lieutenant Selim E. Woodworth in command.
John P. Jackson was ordered to Key West on 10 February to serve as one of the steamers in Comdr. David D. Porter's mother flotilla. On 30 March she arrived at Ship Island from Key West, Florida, as Flag Officer David Farragut assembled vessels for his campaign against New Orleans, Louisiana.
While Farragut labored to move his deep-draft, sea-going ships across the bar into the Mississippi River, John P. Jackson was part of the task force which secured Pass Christian, Mississippi on 4 April. During the operation she joined USS New London and USS Hatteras in driving off Confederate steamers Carondelet, Pamlico, and Oregon as they attempted to prevent the Union landing which wrested the area around Biloxi, Mississippi from the South. The same day John P. Jackson captured steamer P. C. Wallis with a cargo of naval stores.
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