From Wikipedia.
This was the battle where Robert Blake received his Medal of Honor along with three other of his shipmates. I'd never heard of it before, so you-know-what I had to do.
It was fought on December 25, 1863, when Confederate forces tried to surprise Union forces near Legareville, South Carolina, on Johns Island on the Stono River. The attack failed and Union forces remained and the USS Marblehead was not destroyed, captured or driven away.
According to Confederate forces, they had erected five artillery positions to surprise the Federals. The artillery batteries were under the command of Lt. Col. Delaware B. Kemper. There were also several companies of Confederate infantry in the area.
A small force of some 200 Union soldiers from the division of Brigadier General George Henry Gordon were in the vicinity of Legareville and had the support of one Union vessel, the USS Marblehead.
--Old B-Runner
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