Saturday, October 4, 2014

150 Years Ago: CSS Florida, N.C. Lighthouse and USS Mobile

OCTOBER 4TH, 1864:

The CSS Florida arrived at Bahia, Brazil, for provision and coal.  Within three days the Florida's brilliant career as a commerce raider would be at an end.

Confederates destroyed the lighthouse at the entrance from Albemarle to Croatan Sound, North Carolina.  Commander William H. Macomb, USS Shamrock, reported: "It was blownup and afterwards set on fire so as to make the destruction complete.

OCTOBER 5TH, 1864:  The USS Mobile seized the blockade-running British schooner Annie Virdon south of Velasco, Texas, with a cargo of cotton.

--Old B-Runner:

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