AUGUST 8TH, 1864:
The USS Violet, Acting Ensign Thomas Stothard, ran aground off the western bar of the Cape Fear River, North Carolina, and was destroyed.
Stothard and his men labored to keep Violet afloat for five hours, but seeing that the water was gaining, fired her magazine and abandoned the small wooden steamer.
I never heard of this ship.
--Old B-Runner
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