Union - Military/Navy
North Carolina
Navy Lieutenant William Cushing with the steamer Ellis went up New River and at Jacksonville captured two schooners. However, while returning, he ran onto a shoal and lost his own vessel. He and his men escape in one of the captured vessels, however.
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Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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