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Posted On: 11/13/2017 8:38:58 PM
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Re: OldSaltDawg #5219
This might be one of the reasons why we call them DAMN YANKEES. How often do you hear about a ship capturing a train. LOL
In 1862 U.S. Naval Captain Samuel Francis Du Pont led a fleet that attacked Fernandina, Florida, a deep water port with rail connections to Georgia and the Carolinas. He found the defenses abandoned and seized it almost without firing a shot. The only shots fired were by the USS Ottawa at a train trying to escape on tracks that ran along the Amelia River for more than a mile. The train got away, but a shell destroyed the drawbridge just after the last car got over it. Considerably more than that one train was trapped and left behind when the drawbridge was destroyed. "We took another train and five locomotives," Du Pont reported gleefully.
The above is from page 43 of "WAR ON THE Waters - The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865" by James M. McPherson
In 1862 U.S. Naval Captain Samuel Francis Du Pont led a fleet that attacked Fernandina, Florida, a deep water port with rail connections to Georgia and the Carolinas. He found the defenses abandoned and seized it almost without firing a shot. The only shots fired were by the USS Ottawa at a train trying to escape on tracks that ran along the Amelia River for more than a mile. The train got away, but a shell destroyed the drawbridge just after the last car got over it. Considerably more than that one train was trapped and left behind when the drawbridge was destroyed. "We took another train and five locomotives," Du Pont reported gleefully.
The above is from page 43 of "WAR ON THE Waters - The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865" by James M. McPherson
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