In one of the last entries, Commander Macomb reported that the Confederate ram at Edwards Ferry on the Roanoke River (where the CSS Albemarle had been built) had been destroyed. I was unaware that anything more had been built here.
I didn't find out much other than and entry in the Confederate Navy Research Center, www.csnavy.org.
It said that a wooden gunboat, unfinished had been captured at Edwards Ferry. It was presumed to be the Fisher. On June 27, 1865, new and with good machinery arrived at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
--Old B-T'er
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