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Civil War Lecture: Battle of Wassaw Sound, Georgia

June 18 @ 12:00 PM-1:00 PMEDT

FREE VIRTUAL LECTURE

Presented by John V. Quarstein, director emeritus of the USSMonitorCenter

Advance registration is required.

Join us for a virtual lecture with author and historian John V. Quarstein, director emeritus of the USSMonitor中心。Quarstein会给介绍Civil War naval battle between the Confederate ram CSSAtlantaand the Passaic-class ironclad monitors USSWeehawkenand USSNahant.

About the lecture:
When the British-built blockade-runnerFingalcould not escape from Savannah, Georgia, in 1862, the Confederates transformed the iron-hulled vessel into the ironclad CSSAtlanta. TheAtlantawas equipped with four Brooke rifles, a 20-foot ram, and a spar torpedo. Many Southerners believed that this ram could be a match for any Union monitor. When the test came on June 17, 1863, in Wassaw Sound, Georgia,Atlantawas captured by two Passaic-class monitors,WeehawkenandNahant, in a brief encounter. The captured ironclad was repaired and commissioned as USSAtlanta, serving in the James River against its former Confederate owners. The ram was eventually sold to Haiti, but sank en route to the Caribbean Sea.

Civil War Lecture: Battle of Wassaw Sound, Georgia
June 18, 2021 • 12 p.m. (ET)


Image credit: The capture of CSSAtlanta(at left) by USSWeehawken, in Wassaw Sound, Georgia, 17 June 1863. Courtesy of the Naval History and Heritage Command, NH 58896.
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Details

Date:
June 18
Time:
12:00 PM - 1:00 PMEDT

Venue

The Mariners’ Museum
100 Museum Drive
Newport News,VA23606United States
Phone:
(757) 596-2222
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