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Potomac Flotilla
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The Potomac Flotilla, also called the Potomac Squadron, was a unit of the United States Navy created in the early days of the American Civil War to secure Union communications in the Chesapeake Bay, the Potomac River and their tributaries, and to disrupt Confederate communications and shipping there.
Attack on the Confederate Batteries at Aquia Creek by the Potomac Flotilla.
Attack on the Confederate Batteries at Aquia Creek by the Potomac Flotilla.
James H. Ward
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Commander James Harmon Ward was the first officer of the United States Navy who was killed during the American Civil War.
James H. Ward
James H. Ward
James Harman Ward
James Harman Ward
The steam tug USS Thomas Freeborn [left] at Mathis Point June 27, 1861
The steam tug USS Thomas Freeborn [left] at Mathis Point June 27, 1861
The steam tug USS Thomas Freeborn in 1861. The photo shows some of the ship's officers and men demonstrating how her late commanding officer, Commande
The steam tug USS Thomas Freeborn in 1861. The photo shows some of the ship's officers and men demonstrating how her late commanding officer, Commander James H. Ward, was sighting her bow gun when he was mortally wounded on 27 June 1861, during an action with Confederate forces at Mathias Point, Virginia. The gun is a 32 pounder smoothbore, of 60 hundredweight, on a "Novelty Carriage". This mounting was developed by Commander Ward before the Civil War