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Attack on Aquia Creek Batteries, VA
in the American Civil War
May 31 - June 1, 1861
Online Books:
Official Records, Reports (Page
55-59)
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, by the United
States War Department, 1880
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Union Battle Summary |
| Aquia Creek, Va., May 29-June 1, 1861. Union
Gunboats. Aquia Creek, on a small, navigable stream of the same name
flowing into the Potomac 55 miles below Washington, with which it had
steamboat connections, was an important point on the through route
from New Orleans and Mobile to New York. Batteries planted there by
Virginia troops were attacked on these dates by the Federal gunboats
Freeborn, Anacostia, Resolute and Pawnee. After the first attack Col.
Ruggles moved 700 men across from Fredericksburg, with some 6-pounder
rifled guns, established Col. Bate's Tennessee regiment at Brooke
Station and returned the rest of his force to Fredericksburg. These
brief and indecisive affairs marked the beginning of hostilities on
the waters of the Potomac. They were almost bloodless.
Source: The Union Army, Volume 5, Cyclopedia of Battles,
1908 |
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