Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries

| Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries
Forts Clark and Hatteras

| Began:|

August 28, 1861

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| Ended:|

August 29, 1861

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| Location:|

Outer Banks, Dare County, North Carolina

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| Theater:|

Eastern Theater

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| Campaign:|

Blockade of the Carolina Coast

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| Outcome:|

Union victory

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Combatants

9th New York Regiment
20th New York Regiment

Hatteras Island Garrison

Commanders

Benjamin F. Butler
Brigadier General, USA

William F. Martin
Colonel, CSA

Strength

2,000

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900

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Casualties

3 (wounded)

770 est.
Killed: 4-7
Wounded: 20-45
Captured: 691

On August 26, an amphibious expedition led by Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler and Flag-Officer Silas Stringham, embarked from Fort Monroe to capture Hatteras Inlet, an important haven for blockade-runners. On the 28th, while the navy bombarded Forts Clark and Hatteras, Union troops came ashore and attacked the rear of the Confederate batteries. On August 29, Col. William F. Martin surrendered the Confederate garrison of 670. The Federals lost only one man. Butler returned to Fort Monroe, leaving the captured forts garrisoned. This movement was part of Union efforts to seize coastal enclaves from which to enforce the blockade.

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Battles of the American Civil War: 1861

Eastern Theater|

Sewell's Point \-- Aquia Creek \-- Philippi \-- Bethel Church \-- Hoke's Run \-- Rich Mountain \-- Corrick's Ford \-- Blackburn's Ford \-- 1st Bull Run \-- Kessler's Cross Lanes \-- Hatteras Inlet Batteries \-- Carnifex Ferry \-- Cheat Mountain \-- Greenbrier River \-- Ball's Bluff \-- Camp Allegheny \-- Dranesville

Western Theater|

Barbourville \-- Camp Wildcat \-- Belmont \-- Ivy Mountain \-- Rowlett's Station

Trans-Mississippi Theater|

1st Boonville \-- Cole's Camp \-- Carthage \-- Mesilla \-- Wilson's Creek \-- Dry Wood Creek \-- 1st Lexington \-- Liberty \-- Fredericktown \-- 1st Springfield \-- Round Mountain \-- Chusto-Talasah \-- Blackwater Creek\-- Chustenahlah \-- Mount Zion Church

Lower Seaboard Theater|

Fort Sumter \-- Santa Rosa Island

Naval|

Cockle Creek