Francis Asbury Roe
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Francis Asbury Roe was an admiral in the United States Navy who served during the American Civil War.
Francis A. Roe, circa 1866
USS Sassacus (1862)
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The first USS Sassacus, a wooden, double-ended, sidewheel steamer in commission in the United States Navy from 1863 to 1865. She saw service in the American Civil War.
Francis Asbury Roe
…Katahdin, Roe defeated Confederate general John C. Breckinridge's attack on Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Roe was ordered to command the side-wheel steamer Sassacus on the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron in September 1863, and captured and destroyed several blockade runners in the sounds of North Carolina. Eight…
USS Sassacus ramming CSS Albemarle, 5 May 1864
The USS Sassacus rams the CSS Albemarle.