The USS Marblehead was under the command of Lieutenant Commander Richard Worsam Meade, the nephew of Major General George Gordon Meade of Gettysburg fame.
The Marblehead mounted an 11-inch Dahlgren gun, two 24-pound smoothbore guns and one 20-pounder rifle. Further down the Stono River, which ran along Johns Island past Legareville and into the Atlantic Ocean, two other gunboats were posted at the inlet.
They were the USS Pawnee, commanded by George Balch and had the firepower of eight IX-inch Dahlgren guns, one 100-pounder Parrott rifle, one 50-pounder Dahlgren rifle and two 12-pounder boat howitzers. The other ship was the USS C.P. Williams, a mortar schooner that mounted a couple 8-inch mortars under the command of Acting Master F.N. Freeman.
--Old B-Runner
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