Monday, April 13, 2015

Confederate Ram at Edwards Ferry, N.C.

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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