Back on the Stono River with the USS Pawnee by November, the Marblehead provided cover as U.S. Army troops sank piles as obstructions in the river above Legareville, South Carolina, on November 24.
The next month, on Christmas Day, Confederate batteries, in an attempt to chase the Marblehead and Pawnee away, opened fire. The Marblehead suffered some twenty hits but was able to capture two of the enemy's eight-inch seacoast howitzers
Four of her sailors were awarded the Medal of Honor for action in the last action on the Stono River. They were contraband Robert Blake, Boatswain's Mate William Farley, Quartermaster James Miller and Landsman Charles Moore.
On June 2, 1964, the Marblehead became a practice ship for midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy located in Newport, Rhode Island. After just a month, she resumed her blockading duties for five months before returning to the Academy as a practice ship.
After this, she went to the Washington Navy Yard where the Marblehead was decommissioned 19 September 1866. Recommissioned the following month, she was assigned to the North Atlantic Squadron where she operated in the Caribbean for the next two years.
On 18 August 1868, the Marblehead went to New York Navy Yard, was decommissioned 4 September and sold 30 September.
--Old B-Runner
No comments:
Post a Comment