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Posted inMaritime & Naval History US Civil War

December 14, 1861 – Engagement at Newport News

The Fortress Monroe correspondent of the New York Times says of the resent engagement at Newport News, between the Confederate steamer Yorktown and some of our gunboats, that:

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