I just read that Fort Fisher State Historic Site in North Carolina was closed on Monday because of all the rain and flooding.
--Old B-R'er
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Showing posts with label flooding. Show all posts
Thursday, October 8, 2015
CSS Pee Dee Cannons Underwater Again?
I'm not sure if the cannons recovered recently from the CSS Pee Dee were still on the site by the side of the Pee Dee River in South Carolina, but if they were, they might once again be underwater due to all the rain and flooding in South Carolina in the last week.
----Old B-Runner
----Old B-Runner
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Spring Flooding on James River-- Part 2
MARCH 5, 1865: The next morning, March 5th, Glisson replied to the secretary: "Your telegram was received this morning at fifteen minutes after midnight; blowing a gale of wind at the time. The USS Aries sailed at daylight this morning. The monitors are expected every moment from Cape Fear, and I shall send them up the river immediately."
One of the monitors from the southern stations, the USS Sangamon, arrived in Hampton Roads that afternoon and sped up the James--a quick response to Grant's request. Within several days three additional monitors joined the Union James River squadron.
--Old B-R'er
One of the monitors from the southern stations, the USS Sangamon, arrived in Hampton Roads that afternoon and sped up the James--a quick response to Grant's request. Within several days three additional monitors joined the Union James River squadron.
--Old B-R'er
Spring Flooding on James River Opens Way For Possible Confederate Ironclad Attack: Send in the Monotors!
MARCH 4-5TH, 1865: Spring floods on the James river made it possible for the heavy draft Confederate ironclads to strike at City Point, as they had attemptedto do in January. This also might mean the Union ironclads could push upriver against Richmond.
On 3 March, Secretary Welles had asked Captain Oliver S. Glisson, senior naval officer at Hampton Roads, if the ironclads Montauk and Monadnock had reported to him. "When they arrive," he directed impatiently, "send them up the James River immediately."
On the evening of the 4th General Grant, hoping to take advantage of the rising water, wired Assistant Secretary Fox: "The James River is very high, and will continue so as long as the weather of the past week lasts. It would be well to have at once all the ironclads that it is intended should come here [City Point]."
Within half an hour of the arrival of Grant's message at the Navy department, Secretary Welles ordered Glisson: "Send off a steamer to Cape Fear River to bring the Montauk, ironclad, to James River immediately, and let the same steamer go with great dispatch to Charleston to bring up two ironclads from there; all for the James River."
The monitors definitely were no longer needed at Charleston or Wilmington.
--Old B-Runner
On 3 March, Secretary Welles had asked Captain Oliver S. Glisson, senior naval officer at Hampton Roads, if the ironclads Montauk and Monadnock had reported to him. "When they arrive," he directed impatiently, "send them up the James River immediately."
On the evening of the 4th General Grant, hoping to take advantage of the rising water, wired Assistant Secretary Fox: "The James River is very high, and will continue so as long as the weather of the past week lasts. It would be well to have at once all the ironclads that it is intended should come here [City Point]."
Within half an hour of the arrival of Grant's message at the Navy department, Secretary Welles ordered Glisson: "Send off a steamer to Cape Fear River to bring the Montauk, ironclad, to James River immediately, and let the same steamer go with great dispatch to Charleston to bring up two ironclads from there; all for the James River."
The monitors definitely were no longer needed at Charleston or Wilmington.
--Old B-Runner
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