July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
War-date Document Signed 1pp. quarto, Brooklyn, New York, September 30, 1864, and reads “Will you please send to the care of Messrs. Walden & Willard, of this City, the amount of Prize Money due me as a 2nd Cl. Fire attached to the United States Vessel Pocahontas when she captured the Prizes ‘Antona’ ‘Waterman’ & others...” Fine condition. The USS Pocahontas departed Vera Cruz during the secession crisis, and arrived at Hampton Roads on March 12, 1861, and on April 5th was assigned to the small joint Army-Navy force sent to Charleston Harbor to provision the federal garrison at Fort Sumter. However, she did not reach Charleston Harbor until the afternoon of the 13th, as Major Robert Anderson was surrendering the beleaguered U.S. fort. The next day, she helped evacuate the Union troops and returned north. She later served under Admiral David Farragut at Pensacola, Florida and she performed blockade duty off Mobile Bay where she captured British steamer Antona with a valuable cargo of munitions and merchandise on January 6, 1863. On March 5, her guns destroyed blockade running sloop Josephine, previously forced aground by Aroostook near Fort Morgan. After repairs at New Orleans, Louisiana from 6 July-19 August, Pocahontas sailed north. Damaged severely in a storm during the passage, the steamer arrived on September 7th, 18634, and decommissioned a week later for repairs.
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