August 27, 1864: Action At Masonboro Inlet, NC

AUGUST 27TH, 1864:  The USS Niphon, Acting Lieutenant Joseph B. Breck, and the USS Monticello, Acting Master Henry A Phelon, conducted an expedition up Masonboro Inlet, North Carolina, to silence a Confederate battery which was reported to have been erected in the vicinity.

The two screw steamers shelled the shoreline and a number of buildings at Masonboro; landing parties went ashore and captured a quantity of rifles, ammunition and foodstuffs.

--Old B-Runner