Hoopes, Joseph

Joseph Hoopes was born to John and Lydia Hoopes in New Brighton, Pennsylvania and served in the United States Navy during the Civil War. Hoopes joined the navy as a Third Assistant Engineer on September 16, 1862 and was assigned to the USS Passaic. His ship was sent to Charleston, South Carolina along with the USS Monitor, which was lost in bad weather off of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. He remained on the USS Passaic until he was transferred in April 1865 to the USS Kearsarge, which had destroyed the CSS Alabama, a Confederate raider, on June 19, 1864. After the Civil War, the US Navy sent the USS Kearsarge to Africa, where Hoopes contracted yellow fever and died in March 1866. While he was buried at sea, a monument was installed at Grove Cemetery in New Brighton. (By Don Sailer)
Life Span
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    Full name
    Joseph Hoopes
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    Mixed (Mulatto)
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    Family
    John R. Hoopes (father), Lydia Hoopes (mother)
    Occupation
    Military
    Relation to Slavery
    Free black
    Military
    Union Navy
    US military (Post-Civil War)
    How to Cite This Page: "Hoopes, Joseph," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/32485.