FEBRUARY 7, 1862:
The
Battle of Roanoke Island (Day
One):
An amphibious operation fought on February 7–8, on a North Carolina
barrier island once the site of Raleigh’s Lost Colony, the battle consisted of
an uneven contest between a flotilla of Union Army and Navy gunboats plus a
land-based army division, against a Confederate Mosquito Fleet and about 2,000
Confederate soldiers holding four forts and two batteries on the approaches to
the island.
The first day’s action consisted of a gun battle between the
Federal gunboats against the Mosquito Fleet and the forts on shore, plus an
amphibious Union landing.
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