Battle of Mobile Bay
Schedule
Thu Nov 14 2024 at 06:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
St John's Episcopal Church | Wilmington, NC
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Wilmington’s Cape Fear Civil War Round Table invites the public to attend a presentation by John V. Quarstein, the director emeritus of the USS Monitor Center at the Mariners’ Museum and retired director of the Virginia War Museum in Newport News, Virginia.Quarstein has authored 19 books on the war as well as having written and narrated several PBS documentaries. He is an energetic and entertaining speaker and a favorite of the Cape Fear Round Table.
John will speak to us about the legendary and furious battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864, pitting famous U.S. Navy Admiral David Farragut against Confederate States Navy Admiral Franklin Buchanan.
Less well known than Farragut, Buchanan was born in Baltimore in 1800, and joined the U.S. Navy as a midshipman in 1815. He had a sterling record as a naval officer, including service in the Mexican War, becoming the first superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and commanding ships in Commodore Perry’s missions to Japan.
Come to learn and be entertained by a world-class speaker who will tell about the life and times of Franklin Buchanan from the momentous battle of Hampton Roads between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia, to the desperate, close-quarters naval combat in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in 1864. It’s a tale of great courage, drama and legendary leadership.
Come along and bring a friend! For information about membership in the round table, go to our website at http://cfcwrt.org and click on “Join". See you there
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