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Background
In April, 1864 a Confederate Army with the aid of the CSS Albemarle forced the surrender of the Union garrison at Plymouth. Robert Hoke, commander of a Confederate Army in North Carolina, encouraged by his success at Plymouth attempted to retake New Bern which had been in Union control since early in 1862. For his proposed attack on New Bern Hoke again turned to the aid of the CSS Albemarle which had been a decisive factor in the battle of Plymouth. Look up April in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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See USS Albemarle and HMS Albemarle CSS Albemarle was an ironclad ram of the Confederate Navy (and later the second Albemarle of the United States Navy), named for a town and a sound in North Carolina and a county in Virginia. ...
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The Battle James W. Cooke, commander of the CSS Albemarle sailed out of Plymouth in early May, 1864. Steaming south toward New Bern, Cooke ran into a Union fleet at the mouth of Albemarle Sound, commanded by Captain Melancton Smith. Smith with an advantage in numbers could do little damage to the single Confederate ship. Shots glanced off the Albemarle's sides. The USS Sassacus rammed the Albemarle at top speed and caused some significant damage. The Albemarle began taking on water but the Sassacus had also sustained damage from the impact and a shot burst one of the boilers scalding the crew. The rest of the Union fleet managed to recapture a converted steamer called the Bombshell. The Sassacus by now too damaged to function drifted down river while the Albemarle was also damaged enough not to continue the fight and made its way back to Plymouth. Captain James Wallace Cooke, CSN James Wallace Cooke (died 1869), born in North Carolina, joined the U.S. Navy in 1828. ...
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Aftermath The battle itself was a standoff but the events that followed had more decisive results. The Albemarle had held its own against greater numbers but the damages caused the during the battle had forced the ship into port for the next several months prevented it from being used in General Hoke's planned assualt on New Bern. Hoke went ahead with his campaign even without the Albemarle. He achieved nothing before being recalled to Virginia to help defend Petersburg and Richmond. The events in October had a greater impact on the situation when William B. Cushing led a naval raid and detonated a torpedo benieth the hull. The removal of Hoke's force and the destruction of the Albemarle allowed both Plymouth and Washington, North Carolina to fall back into Union hands. A standoff is used in mechanics and electronics to separate two parts from one another. ...
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William Barker Cushing (4 November 1842–17 December 1874) was an officer in the United States Navy, best known for sinking the Confederate ironclad CSS Albemarle during a daring nighttime raid on October 27, 1864, a feat for which he received the Thanks of Congress. ...
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Order of Battle
Union Navy Captain Melancton Smith A 9 Dahlgren smoothbore cannon on the deck of USS Miami (Photograph by Mathew Brady) Crew of the USS Miami, circa 1864 For other ships named Miami, see USS Miami The first USS Miami to serve in the United States Navy, a side-wheel, double-ender gunboat, was launched by...
For other ships named Sassacus, see USS Sassacus The first USS Sassacus, a wooden, double-ended, side-wheel steamer, was launched on December 23, 1862 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard in New Hampshire, sponsored by Miss Wilhemina G. Lambert. ...
For other ships named Sassacus, see USS Sassacus The first USS Sassacus, a wooden, double-ended, side-wheel steamer, was launched on December 23, 1862 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard in New Hampshire, sponsored by Miss Wilhemina G. Lambert. ...
Confederate Mosquito Fleet Commander John W. Cooke See USS Albemarle and HMS Albemarle CSS Albemarle was an ironclad ram of the Confederate Navy (and later the second Albemarle of the United States Navy), named for a town and a sound in North Carolina and a county in Virginia. ...
CSS Bombshell — believed to have been an Erie Canal steamer — was a U.S. Army transport. ...
CSS Cotton Plant, sometimes referred to as Cotton Planter, was built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1860 and reportedly carried troops in the Pamlico River as early as September 1861. ...
Sources - Chaitin, Peter M., editor, The Coastal War: Chesapeake to the Rio Grande (1984)
- [http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/nc013.htm National Park Summary
- Albemarle Sound Order of Battle
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