#453- "EVERY MAN STOOD AT HIS POST AND DID HIS DUTY": The Destruction of USS Underwriter

The Civil War & Reconstruction

Richard Youngdahl

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🗓️ 14 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In which we look at the Confederate attack on USS Underwriter at New Bern, North Carolina, on February 2, 1864. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.5	And I'm Tracy. Hello y'all, welcome to the podcast.
1:10.6	It's been a while since we covered any aspect of the War on the Waters.
1:16.0	So with this episode, we're going to bring you guys a swashbuckling tale of daring deww worthy of Errol Flynn.
1:24.7	Our tale begins during the last days of January 1864 when hand-picked groups of Confederate
1:31.2	sailors and Marines from three southern ports boarded trains for a secret
1:36.4	mission in North Carolina.
1:39.0	A few weeks earlier, Robert Lee had dispatched troops to North Carolina from Virginia for an attack on New Bern.
1:46.4	The town located on a peninsula at the confluence of the Noose and Trent Rivers had been a federal stronghold since Union forces captured it in March 1862.
1:59.0	Now, here in the early days of 1864, Major General George Pickett of Gettysburg
2:06.3	fame would lead the Confederate effort to kick the Yankees out of New Bern.
2:10.7	He marshalled his force at Kinston, some 40 miles upstream from New Bern,
2:16.7	and planned how to carry out the assault.
2:19.9	One part of the attack would involve a thrust down the noose by a waterborne force of rebel
2:24.9	sailors and Marines. In small boats and launches, those Confederates would descend on New Bern
2:32.1	and attempt to surprise and capture or destroy enemy vessels stationed there.
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