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Manned by forty sailors, boats from the U.S.S. Port Royal, commanded by Acting Master Edgar Van Slyck, rowed forty-five miles up the Apalachicola River seeking the Confederate blockade-runner Fashion. She was finally discovered and captured in Brushy Creek and sailed down river. No casualties were reported on either side. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Robert James Warner, Damn Slavers!: A History of the Sea Lake and River Battles of the Civil War (Bloomington, IN: Author House, 2006), 40.
Record Data
Date Certainty
Exact
Type
Battles/Soldiers
