OCTOBER 22-24: Acting Ensign Sommers of the USS Tacony, led a reconnaissance party up the Roanoke River, North Carolina. While returning, the party was fired at by Confederates and forced to seek cover in a swamp.
After constructing make-shift rafts to support the wounded, Sommers succeeded in reaching the mouth of the river, where he was picked up by Union forces. Four other members of his party, missing in the swamp for four days, were rescued by Union scouts on 29 October.
Wonder What They Were Doing Up the River? --Old B-R'er
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