OCTOBER 29-NOVEMBER 1, 1864 Capitalizing on Lt. Cushing's success destroying the CSS Albemarle, Commander Macomb moved against Plymouth, North Carolina, capturing the town and defenses after a heated engagement.
Immediately after Cushing's return on 29 October, Macomb steamed up the Roanoke River with six ships. The USS Valley City proceeded via Middle River and entered the Roanoke above Plymouth to cut off the garrison's escape by water. Macomb's gunboats engaged the lower batteries protecting the town, but seeing that two schooners had been sunk by the sunken USS Southfield, obstructing the river, withdrew to Albemarle Sound.
On the 30th, Macomb took his fleet through the Middle River to attack the city and its defenses from above, spending the entire day navigating the treacherous channels and shelling the Confederate works at long range. On 31 October, Macomb formed his line of battle, with converted ferryboat USS Commodore Hull in the lead, followedby the sidewheel double-enders USS Tacony, USS Shamrock, USS Ostego and USS Wyalusing.
--Old B-Runner
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Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Friday, October 24, 2014
Another Union Recon Up the Roanoke River in N.C.
OCTOBER 22-24: Acting Ensign Sommers of the USS Tacony, led a reconnaissance party up the Roanoke River, North Carolina. While returning, the party was fired at by Confederates and forced to seek cover in a swamp.
After constructing make-shift rafts to support the wounded, Sommers succeeded in reaching the mouth of the river, where he was picked up by Union forces. Four other members of his party, missing in the swamp for four days, were rescued by Union scouts on 29 October.
Wonder What They Were Doing Up the River? --Old B-R'er
After constructing make-shift rafts to support the wounded, Sommers succeeded in reaching the mouth of the river, where he was picked up by Union forces. Four other members of his party, missing in the swamp for four days, were rescued by Union scouts on 29 October.
Wonder What They Were Doing Up the River? --Old B-R'er
Thursday, April 24, 2014
More On the CSS Albemarle
APRIL 21ST, 1864: Lt.Cmdr. William T. Truxton of the USS Tacony wrote Davenport: "The ironclad, from all accounts, is very much like the first Merrimack (CSS Virginia), with a very long and very sharp submerged prow....
The loss of so good a vessel as the Southfield and so valiant a life as that of the brave Flusser should show the impossibility of contending successfully with a heavy and powerful ironclad with nothing but one or two very vulnerable wooden vessels."
In other words, definitely contradicting Lee in the previous post.
--Old B-Runner
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