Remarks Aug 12/62 Commences & till 4 Weather clear & calm [Not Signed] From 4 to 8 Rec[eive]d fresh provisions. calm. weather clear S.D. Greene From 8 to Meridian Calm & clear weather. At 11.45 the Tioga & Currituck commenced firing towards the right bank of the river William [...]
Remarks July 15/62 Commences & till 4 AM Moderate breeze from S & clear weather William Flye From 4 to 8 Wind & weather same E.V.Gager for L.N.S. From 8 to Meridian Calm & pleasant. Maratanza went up the river & returned. Yankee went up Louis Stodder [...]
Remarks July 10/62 Commences & till 4 AM Calm & clear E.V. Gager for L.N.S. From 4 to 8 Calm & clear Louis Stodder From 8 to Meridian At 10 the Maratanza & Yankee got under weigh and stood down the river. At 10.20 the Yankee returned. Calm weather clear [...]
Ultimately, the Union did not take Richmond in the spring and summer of 1862. The Monitor had spent her time on the James, first supporting McClellan’s advance, and then, with the failure of the Seven Days campaign in early July, his retreat. Her morale effect had not been enough to take Richmond. Yet the public [...]
150 years ago – the Union Navy engaged in its first real action of the war – just up the road aways from The Mariners’ Museum – at Gloucester Point. The Virginia forces who held the Point weren’t yet part of the Confederate Army. They were volunteers – the Richmond Howitzers, and they arrived at [...]
