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The ECW Series Gets Naval: Prepare for the clash of the ironclads!
The clash of the Monitor vs. the Merrimack—the alliterative “M’s” made for a catchy hook for many of us as kids!—is one of the best-known stories of the Civil War: two iron sea beasts trading explosive blows, battling to a … Continue reading
Loss of the USS Monitor
It was on this date, December 31, 1862, at 1:30 a.m.—in the earliest hours of New Year’s Eve—that the USS Monitor went down in rough seas off Cape Hatteras. Sixteen men aboard lost their lives. Forty-seven men, including Captain John … Continue reading
Confederates Invade San Francisco?
Shortly before his death in 1886, James I. Waddell, former captain of the CSS Shenandoah, wrote in his memoirs: “I had matured plans for entering the harbor of San Francisco and laying that city under contribution.”[i] Waddell never did pass … Continue reading
Civil War Echoes: Pearl Harbor
Today 75 years ago the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, catapulting the United States into World War II – a conflict that turned out to be the country’s bloodiest save for the Civil War. Many of the U.S. ships in Pearl … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Leadership--Federal, Navies, Ties to the War, Western Theater
Tagged Admiral David G. Farragut, Antietam Campaign, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Mobile Bay, Battle of the Wilderness, Battle of Wilderness, Bennet Place, blockade, California, CSS Virginia, David Dixon Porter, David Farragut, Early's invasion of Maryland, Fall of New Orleans, Fort Fisher, Japan, Medal of Honor, Monitor, Monitor and Merrimac, New Orleans, Pearl Harbor, Roger B. Taney, St. Louis, Tennessee, USS Cumberland, USS Monitor, West Virginia, West Virginia statehood, World War II
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Wilmington: The Last Open Port on the Confederate Coast
“Though the popular clamor centers upon Charleston, I consider Wilmington a more important point,”[i] stated Gustavus V. Fox to Acting Rear Admiral Samuel Phillip Lee in the fall of 1862. Wilmington, N.C. arose along the banks of the Cape Fear … Continue reading
Posted in Battles
Tagged blockade, Capre Fear, Fort Fisher, Gustuvus Fox, J.G. Foster, Monitor, navy, North Carolina, wilmington
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