Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks

by W. Craig Gaines

On the evening of February 2, 1864, Confederate Commander John Taylor Wood led 250 sailors in two launches and twelve boats to capture the USS Underwriter, a side-wheel steam gunboat anchored on the Neuse River near New Bern, North Carolina. During the ensuing fifteen-minute battle, nine Union crewmen lost their lives, twenty were wounded, and twenty-six fell into enemy hands. Six Confederates were captured and several wounded as they stripped the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807132748
• ISBN13: 9780807132746
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.3" x 10.1"