The Union Navy during the Civil War.3/15/2024 Size: Figures Stand up to 2-1/8 inches tall.2 Covered Wagons, 2 Tents, 2 Canoes, 2 Flags, 16 Fences.25 Union and 25 Confederate Soldier Figures, 18 Horses, 10 Cannon.Wood & Steel Frontier Rifle Designed After The Original Rifle Civil War Soldier 102 Piece Playset Mallory used technological innovation and the skill of individuals to bolster the South's seapower against the Union Navy's superior numbersĬivil War: Flags, Badges, c.1895 40 in. Kindle Available Naval Strategies of the Civil War: Confederate Innovations and Federal OpportunismĬompare and contrast the strategies of the Southern Secretary of the Navy, Mallory, against his rival in the North, Welles. "The Rebel Ram Albemarle Attacking Federal Gun-Boats at Plymouth, North Carolina"Įngraving published in "Harper's Weekly", May 1864, depicting CSS Albemarle driving off USS Miami, after ramming and sinking USS Southfield (foreground), 19 April 1864. During that action, Southfield was rammed and sunk. She was off Plymouth on 19 April, in company with USS Miami, when the new Confederate ironclad ram Albemarle attacked. The Confederates again took the offensive in early 1864, involving Southfield in further combat actions. During March and April 1863, she helped sustain beseiged Federal troops at Washington, N.C. On the 10th of that month, she was badly damaged by Confederate forces attacking Plymouth, N.C. She participated in the captures of Roanoke Island in February, New Bern in March and Beaufort in April.Īfter spending most of the rest of 1862 operating on Virginia's James and York Rivers and under repair, Southfield returned to North Carolina's internal waters in December. Early in 1862, Southfield was sent to the North Carolina Sounds, where her relatively light draft and double-ended ferryboat configuration made her a valuable asset. Purchased by the Navy and converted to a gunboat, she was commissioned in December 1861. USS Southfield, a 750-ton side-wheel steam gunboat, was built in 1857 at Brooklyn, New York, as a civilian ferryboat.
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