The first USS Monticello was a wooden screw-steamer in the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was named for the home of Thomas Jefferson. She was briefly named Star in May 1861.
Monticello was built at Mystic, Connecticut, in 1859; chartered by the Navy in May 1861; and purchased on 12 September 1861 at New York from H. P. Cromwell & Company, for service in the Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Captain Henry Eagle in command.
Monticello was renamed Star on 3 May 1861, but resumed her original name on 23 May. Seeing immediate action, Monticello relieved USS Baltimore in blockading the James River and preventing communication with the Elizabeth River on 2 May, then relieved USS Quaker City at Cape Henry on the 8th. She engaged the batteries at Sewell’s Point on May 18 and 19, then continued blockade duty… (Read more at Wikipedia)
Image information at Library of Congress:
Title: U.S. Gun Boat Montecello
Creator(s): Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist
Date Created/Published: [between 1860 and 1865]
Medium: 1 drawing on tan paper : pencil ; 8.5 x 13.7 cm. (sheet).
Summary: Broadside view of steamship.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-20334 (digital file from original item)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Call Number: DRWG/US – Waud, no. 972 (AA size) [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes:
….Title inscribed below image.
….Formerly Waud no. C-45.
….Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.972)
….Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004660620/
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Mike’s notes:
Note – This image has been digitally adjusted for one or more of the following:
– fade correction,
– color, contrast, and/or saturation enhancement
– selected spot and/or scratch removal
– cropped for composition and/or to accentuate subject