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Hatteras sailed for Key West, Florida on 5 November 1861, arriving there on 13 November to join the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron to choke off the South's economic lifeline as part of president Lincoln's Anaconda Plan. After blockade duty off Apalachicola, Florida, she was reassigned to Cedar Key, Florida, reaching
Cedar Key is a city in Levy County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 687, ... The USS Hatteras raided Cedar Key in January 1862 ...
Looking towards Cedar Key from Atsena Otie Key. Atsena Otie Key is a barrier island and ghost town one-half mile offshore of Cedar Key, Florida.Atsena Otie was the original site of the town of Cedar Key, and in the present day includes a walking trail, swimming area, and ruins of the Eberhard Faber mill.
USS Hatteras (1861), a steamer purchased in 1861, which served during the American Civil War and was sunk by CSS Alabama in January 1863 USS Hatteras (ID-2142) , purchased in 1917, served as a cargo ship during World War I, and decommissioned in 1919
The USS Hatteras raided Cedar Key in January 1862, destroying the railroad's rolling stock and buildings. In March 1862 a Union squadron seized Fernandina. Shells fired by the USS Ottawa damaged the last train leaving Fernandina, killing or injuring several passengers, and almost killing Senator Yulee.
Union troops occupied major ports such as Apalachicola, Cedar Key, Jacksonville, Key West, and Pensacola early in the war. USS Hatteras had blockade duty in Apalachicola, and, in January 1862, was part of a Union naval force which landed in Cedar Key and burned several ships, a pier, and flatcars. [36]
Cedar Key City Commissioner Sue Colson put it bluntly when speaking to the Gainesville Sun in 2017: “We’ve been given a stage 4 diagnosis,” Colson said, speaking about sea-level rise and the ...
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 200-ton schooner was destroyed by the gunboat USS Hatteras ( United States Navy) at Cedar Key, Florida. [92] William United Kingdom: The schooner ran aground and was damaged at Ilfracombe, Devon. She was on a voyage form Cardiff, Glamorgan to Hayle, Cornwall. She was refloated and taken in to Ilfracombe ...