Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Naval Happenings 150 Years Ago: March 13-14

Admiral Du Pont continued about his upcoming attack on Charleston.

"This is about the worst thing yet--for I look for such pounding as done to the Montauk [monitor], today, by the torpedo--it is bad and hard to mend--but we can, we think, close the leak from the inside for the present."


CSS Florida captured and burned the ship Aldebaran.


MARCH 13-14

Confederate troops launch a night attack against Fort Anderson on the Neuse River, NC.  Union gunboats forced them to break off the assault.

Old B-R'er

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