March Events in N.C. Capture of Three Blockade Runners and Sinking of USS Peterhoff

From North Carolina Civil War Sesquicentennial, Timeline.

MARCH 1--  Capture of British steamer Scotia 85 miles SSE of Cape Fear.

MARCH 1-2--  Naval expedition up the Chowan River to rescue Army steamer Bombshell.

MARCH 4--  Capture of British steamer Don, inbound for Wilmington, 5 days out of Nassau.  Ralph Chandler, who I wrote about last week, commanded this vessel as a U.S. Navy ship after the war.

MARCH 6--  Capture of blockade runner Mary Ann outbound from Wilmington, bound for Nassau.

MARCH 6--  USS Peterhoff sunk by  Confederate artillery (and a collision with the USS Monticello) off Smith's Island, Cape Fear.

--Old B-Runner