- Joined
- Mar 21, 2012
I started my maritime service as a Revenue Cutter, and was named after an (acting) presidential First Lady. I fired a single, but very significant shot across the bow of the Nashville in Charleston Harbor in April, 1861. I was captured by a Confederate boarding party during the Second Battle of Galveston. Name that ship.
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Why was the single shot over the bow of the Nashville significant... and what was the weight designation of the gun that fired it?
credit: @7th Texas Mounted Rifles
Friday bonus:
According to the Dix-Hill Cartel Prisoner Exchange System, signed July 22, 1862, how many privates or common seamen were required for the exchange of one Captain in the Navy or one Colonel?
credit: @chellers
AND
Why was the single shot over the bow of the Nashville significant... and what was the weight designation of the gun that fired it?
credit: @7th Texas Mounted Rifles
Friday bonus:
According to the Dix-Hill Cartel Prisoner Exchange System, signed July 22, 1862, how many privates or common seamen were required for the exchange of one Captain in the Navy or one Colonel?
credit: @chellers