USS Brockenborough (1862), Kartoniert / Broschiert

Blurb

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. USS Brockenborough (1862) was a sloop captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy primarily as a ship's tender and also as a gunboat stationed off Confederate ports to prevent their trading with foreign countries. On 16 October 1862, the commanding officer of the Union steamer Fort Henry - Acting Lieutenant Edward Y. McCauley - ordered Acting Master Robert B. Smith to lead a reconnaissance expedition up the Apalachicola River. During the ensuing operation, Smith's boats exchanged fire with Southerners ashore and signaled Sagamore for help. That gunboat's launch brought a howitzer into the fray, "...cleared the banks of the guerrillas," and enabled the Union boats to continue on upstream. A short distance past the town of Apalachicola, Florida, Smith found a sailing ship which had grounded inside the mouth of a creek. She proved to be G. L. Brockenborough, a sloop carrying 64 bales of cotton. Her master and a single passenger were still on board.