AUGUST 27TH, 1864: The USS Niphon and USS Monticello conducted an expedition up Masonboro Inlet, N.C., (near Wilmington) to silence a Confederate battery which was reported to have been erected in the vicinity. The two steamers shelled the shoreline and a number of buildings in Masonboro.
Landing parties went ashore and captured a quantity of rifles, ammunition and foodstuffs.
--Old B-Runner
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