Civil War

The Capture of Hatteras Inlet

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哈特拉斯角的地图。礼貌的weather.com

The first combined operation of the Civil War was the capture of Hatteras Inlet. This inlet was used by Confederate gunboats and privateer merchantmen sailing around Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. These Southern commerce raiders’ depreciation was lucrative for the Carolinians; however, Northern losses became so significant that several major maritime insurance brokers demanded something be done about this situation. This prompted the development of the Union’s Hatteras Inlet operation. [1]

北卡罗来纳’s Outer Banks

The North Carolina Sounds reached from the Virginia border to Cape Lookout, the eastern border of North Carolina. Four major inlets could be used to reach the Atlantic Ocean from the Sounds: Hatteras, Oregon, Ocracoke, and Beaufort (Old Inlet). Hatteras Inlet was best situated for commerce raiding. Cape Hatteras was the easternmost point within the Confederacy, overlooking the Gulf Stream. This current was very popular with merchant ships trading between Northern ports like New York, the Caribbean, and South America. Using the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, the Confederates could signal waiting raiders about tempting merchantmen targets. “The enemy’s commerce,” wrote North Carolina governor John Ellis on April 27, 1861, “could be cut off by privateers on the coast of No. Carolina.” [2]Read more

Civil War

Burnside’s North Carolina Expedition: From New Bern to Beaufort

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Ambrose Burnside。由国会图书馆提供

这是我分享的故事的延续another blog关于伯恩赛德探险以及NC声音的战斗以及罗阿诺克岛的捕获。

准将Ambrose E. Burnside入侵北卡罗来纳州inland seas was a major success. In seven days, Burnside, with the support of Flag Officer L.M. Goldsborough’s naval forces, had captured Currituck, Albemarle, Roanoke, and Croatan Sounds. This placed Burnside’s army in a position to capture his next objective, New Bern, North Carolina.Read more

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Burnside’s Roanoke Island Expedition: The Battle for the North Carolina Sounds

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从弗吉尼亚州的诺福克到北卡罗来纳州的Bogue Inlet，1874年。
Nathaniel H. Bishop的纸独木舟航行，https://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nhb/paperc/intro.html#maps。

Major General George B. McClellan recognized the need for combined operations to overwhelm the Confederate war effort. With more than 3,000 miles of coastline to defend, the Southerners were often unable to protect their coastal territory effectively. The captures of Hatteras Inlet and Port Royal Sound were decisive actions that furthered General Winfield Scott’s Anaconda Plan. Brigadier General Ambrose Burnside’s Roanoke Island Expedition would strike at the very heart of the Confederacy. This effort to conquer North Carolina’s inland seas would come close to ending the war in 1862.

伟大的内陆海

哈特拉斯入口的丧失是北卡罗来纳州的粗鲁觉醒。联邦政府突然完全可以访问声音，控制着各种浅水物体的钥匙是罗阿诺克岛，位于阿尔伯马尔和库里托克声音的汇合处。这些大声的声音导致诺福克和弗吉尼亚州的朴次茅斯通过大萧条的沼泽和阿尔伯马尔和切萨皮克运河。这是南部最大的造船中心的后门，是与里士满的直接联系。这些声音使北卡罗来纳州河港口（例如伊丽莎白市，伊登顿和普利茅斯）获得了关键的机会。Read more

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帮助识别神秘人工制品

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Over the past 13 years, NOAA archaeologists and Mariners’ Museum conservators have discovered hundreds of amazing artifacts within USSMonitor旋转的枪炮塔。当我键入此博客条目时，一些文物，例如达尔格伦枪，枪车和枪支工具。其他人已经完全保存，现在在USS中展出Monitor在水手博物馆中心或已借给全国其他机构以帮助分享Monitor‘s fascinating stories.

但是，有少数文物继续在实验室中神秘，尤其是那些完全保存但未正确识别的工件。在过去的13年中，我们没有成功地发现炮塔中的每一个人工制品，这听起来很奇怪或令人惊讶。但是，从考古环境中挖掘出许多材料通常就是这种情况。Read more

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十月的本月工件 - 狄奥尼斯·引擎号

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USS狄俄尼索斯, Courtesy of The Mariners' Museum.
USS狄俄尼索斯, Courtesy of The Mariners’ Museum.

Hello faithful readers and welcome back to the artifact of the month! This month, we will be looking at a 271,000 pound engine from a Liberty ship built in World War II, USS狄俄尼索斯。Last week, while working on my blog, I got to take a little field trip out to the back of the museum where all of the macro artifacts are stored. While exploring, my supervisor showed myself and another intern the engine which is housed in a shed to protect it from the elements. The shed itself is a little creepy from the outside, but the engine inside is magnificent. It is massive, and just looms over you, with parts and pieces that are about the same size as me.

USS狄俄尼索斯was originally built for the Royal Navy as HMSFaithfulas part of the lend-lease program, but instead was kept by the US Navy. It was commissioned in 1945 as a repair ship for the Navy, and was sent into the Pacific war zone at the end of World War II. Following the end of the war,狄俄尼索斯直到1952年朝鲜战争爆发，当时将其加入了大西洋舰队，一直被放在美国海军预备队的舰队中。朝鲜战争结束后，狄俄尼索斯再次被保留，直到被取消为止。狄俄尼索斯是一艘自由船，是第二次世界大战中美国海事委员会生产的一种船，由全国各地制造的标准化零件建造。他们的自由船以不到2,000,000美元的价格赚钱，除了2,840吉普车，440辆坦克或2.3亿轮步枪弹药外，还持有27名军官和497名入伍水手。在战争期间，大约200艘船由于各种原因而丢失了，但两艘不同的船只，SSJeremiah O’Brianand SSJohn Brown幸存下来，都向公众开放。该发动机于1978年被拆除，并捐赠给了水手博物馆并展出。发动机本身约为271,000磅，其所有组件都组装在一起，并且是主要的三重扩展蒸汽机狄俄尼索斯。同年晚些时候狄俄尼索斯’hull was sunk off the coast of North Carolina to become part of the artificial reefs along the coastline. It was the fourth Liberty ship to be sunk there since 1974, and is located about five miles south of Oregon Inlet.Read more