Yesterday, I wrote about this ship supposedly being a presidential yacht for Lincoln, but I have seen no further mention of it being one. However, it led a long and colorful Naval life so I went deeper into it, thanks to Wikipedia.
The ship was built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and commissioned Aug. 12, 1864. It was classified as gunboat and remained that until reclassified as the IX-32 (auxiliary ship) in 1921. It sank suddenly in 1929 and was struck from Naval rolls on May 9, 1930.
During the Civil War, the 179 foot-long ship had a beam of 30 feet and a crew of 154. Its armament consisted of 1 X 100-pdr. Parrott rifle, a 1 X 30-pdr Parrott rifle, 2 X 9-inch smoorhbore Dahlgren guns, 2 X 24-pdr howitzers and 1X 12-pdr. gun.
One of its first jobs was to search for the elusive Confederate raider CSS Tallahassee off the New England coast, but the Yantic was unsuccessful in it. It then joined the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and took part in both battles of Fort Fisher.
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The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
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Saturday, February 12, 2011
Monday, December 13, 2010
Ground Broken for Battle of New Bern's Visitors Center
From 2008 New Bern (NC) Sun Journal
On March 14, 1862, a force of Union soldiers and 14 gunboats from the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron attacked a badly outmatched Confederate force at New Bern, North Carolina, and captured the city which remained in Union hands for the rest of the war. This was part of the Burnside Expedition.
Union forces suffered 90 killed, 380 wounded and 1 missing. Confederate casualties were 64 killed, 101 wounded and 413 missing or captured.
Groundbreaking for the visitors center took place on the 25 acre battlefield near the entrance to Taberna on US Highway 70-East and is a major project of the New Bern Historical Society which got the battlefield through the Civil War Preservation Trust.
Total cost of the visitors center is $170,000 out of a total $900,000 project.
It was dedicated January 3, 2009.
Always Good to Preserve and Educate. --B-R'er
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On March 14, 1862, a force of Union soldiers and 14 gunboats from the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron attacked a badly outmatched Confederate force at New Bern, North Carolina, and captured the city which remained in Union hands for the rest of the war. This was part of the Burnside Expedition.
Union forces suffered 90 killed, 380 wounded and 1 missing. Confederate casualties were 64 killed, 101 wounded and 413 missing or captured.
Groundbreaking for the visitors center took place on the 25 acre battlefield near the entrance to Taberna on US Highway 70-East and is a major project of the New Bern Historical Society which got the battlefield through the Civil War Preservation Trust.
Total cost of the visitors center is $170,000 out of a total $900,000 project.
It was dedicated January 3, 2009.
Always Good to Preserve and Educate. --B-R'er
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Esrom Morse and USS Columbia
There was an article in the Jan. 3, 2010, Scranton Times-Tribune about Civil War collector Frank Mroczka's book on that subject.
It mentions that he has the sword of Esrom Morse, a Union Naval officer who helped save the lives of 45 shipmates on the USS Columbia.
I looked it up, but couldn't find much.
There was a 50-gun 1836 frigate named the USS Columbia that was scuttled and burned April 21, 1861, to prevent capture by Confederates at Norfolk Navy Yard. But this is unlikely the one in question.
There was another USS Columbia, a 503 ton, 168 foot long, 25 foot beam blockade-runner captured by the USS Santiago de Cuba running the blockade off Florida. It was purchased by the Navy at Key West in November, 1862, and outfitted as a naval ship at the New York Navy Yard and commissioned in December under the command of Acting Volunteer Lt. J. P. Couthouy.
It was sent to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron at Wilmington, NC, where it ran aground off Masonboro Inlet and became a wreck January 14, 1863, a very short Naval career. It's commander and 40 men were captured by Confederates.
I came across no mention of Esrom Morse. I'll do some research.
Interesting Story. --Old B-R
It mentions that he has the sword of Esrom Morse, a Union Naval officer who helped save the lives of 45 shipmates on the USS Columbia.
I looked it up, but couldn't find much.
There was a 50-gun 1836 frigate named the USS Columbia that was scuttled and burned April 21, 1861, to prevent capture by Confederates at Norfolk Navy Yard. But this is unlikely the one in question.
There was another USS Columbia, a 503 ton, 168 foot long, 25 foot beam blockade-runner captured by the USS Santiago de Cuba running the blockade off Florida. It was purchased by the Navy at Key West in November, 1862, and outfitted as a naval ship at the New York Navy Yard and commissioned in December under the command of Acting Volunteer Lt. J. P. Couthouy.
It was sent to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron at Wilmington, NC, where it ran aground off Masonboro Inlet and became a wreck January 14, 1863, a very short Naval career. It's commander and 40 men were captured by Confederates.
I came across no mention of Esrom Morse. I'll do some research.
Interesting Story. --Old B-R
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