Battle of Roanoke Island Fort Huger |
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Dare County, North Carolina
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Burnside’s North Carolina Expedition
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| Combatants |
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Coastal Division North Atlantic Blockading Squadron
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6 CSA infantry units CSN "Mosquito Fleet"
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Ambrose Burnside Brigadier General, CSA
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Henry Wise Brigadier General, CSA
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264 Killed: 37 Wounded: 214 Missing: 13
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143 Killed: 23 Wounded: 58 Missing: 62 Captured: 2,500
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On February 7, Brig. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside landed 7,500 men on the southwestern side of Roanoke Island in an amphibious operation launched from Fort Monroe. The next morning, supported by gunboats, the Federals assaulted the Confederate forts on the narrow waist of the island, driving back and out-maneuvering Brig. Gen. Henry Wise’s outnumbered command. After losing less than 100 men, the Confederate commander on the field, Col. H.M. Shaw, surrendered about 2,500 soldiers and 32 guns. Burnside had secured an important outpost on the Atlantic Coast, tightening the blockade. (NPS summary)
| Brigadier General Ambrose Burnside's North Carolina Expedition, February-June 1862 |
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Roanoke Island -- New Bern -- Fort Macon -- South Mills -- Tranter's Creek
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| Battles of the American Civil War: 1862 |
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| | Eastern Theater | Cockpit Point -- Hancock -- Roanoke Island -- Elizabeth City -- New Bern -- Fort Macon -- 1st Kernstown -- Hampton Roads -- Yorktown -- South Mills -- Williamsburg -- Eltham's Landing -- McDowell -- Princeton Court House -- Drewry’s Bluff -- Front Royal -- 1st Winchester -- Hanover Court House -- Seven Pines -- Tranter's Creek -- Cross Keys -- Port Republic -- Oak Grove -- Beaver Dam Creek -- Gaines' Mill -- Garnett's and Golding's Farms -- Savage's Station -- Glendale -- White Oak Swamp -- Malvern Hill -- Cedar Mountain -- 1st Rappahannock Station -- Manassas Station Operations -- Thoroughfare Gap -- 2nd Bull Run -- Chantilly -- Harpers Ferry -- South Mountain -- Antietam -- Shepherdstown -- Fredericksburg -- Kinston -- White Hall -- Goldsborough Bridge | | | Western Theater | Middle Creek -- Mill Springs -- Fort Henry -- Fort Donelson -- Island Number Ten -- 1st Memphis -- Shiloh -- Siege of Corinth -- 1st Chattanooga -- 1st Murfreesboro -- Richmond, KY -- Munfordville -- Iuka -- Corinth -- Hatchie's Bridge -- Perryville -- Hartsville -- Jackson, TN -- Chickasaw Bayou -- Parker's Cross Roads -- Stones River | | | Trans-Mississippi Theater | Roan's Tan Yard -- Valverde -- Pea Ridge -- Glorieta Pass -- Stanwix Station -- Albuquerque -- Peralta -- Picacho Pass -- Dragoon Springs -- Saint Charles -- Cotton Plant -- Apache Pass -- Moore’s Mill -- Kirksville -- Compton's Ferry -- 1st Independence, MO -- 1st Sabine Pass -- 1st Galveston -- Lone Jack -- 1st Newtonia -- Old Fort Wayne -- Island Mound -- Clark's Mill -- Cane Hill -- Prairie Grove | | | Lower Seaboard Theater | Fort Pulaski -- Forts Jackson and St. Philip -- New Orleans -- Secessionville -- Simmon's Bluff -- Tampa -- Baton Rouge -- 1st Donaldsonville -- Saint John's Bluff -- Georgia Landing |
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