Jan. 30, 1865: Action at Half Moon Battery, North Carolina

JANUARY 30TH, 1865:  The USS Cherokee, Acting Lieutenant William F. Dennison, exchanged gunfire with Confederate troops at Half Moon Battery, Cape Fear River.

Earlier in the month, 19 January, the USS Governor Buckingham, Acting Lieutenant John MacDiarmid, opened on the battery in support of Army efforts ashore to clear the area of Confederates following the fall of Fort Fisher.

--Old B-Runner