USS Albemarle (1863) [SEP] conflict
USS Albemarle (1863)
USS "Albemarle" (1863) was a screw steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a ship's tender in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.
"Albermarle" and "Lion" seized by Union Navy forces.
On the morning of 26 March 1862, sidewheel gunboat "Delaware" -- during an expedition to the Pungo River in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, in search of Confederate shipping reported to
a Private; appointed 1st Sergeant February 8, 1863; re-enlisted January 1, 1864. George transferred to the Union Navy on May 7, 1864, as an Ordinary Seaman, under the alias name of William Smith; served on the USS North Carolina (1820) and USS Chicopee (1863); volunteered from the Chicopee as one of the crew of U.S. Picket Boat No. 1 with Lieutenant William B. Cushing in the destruction of Rebel Ram CSS Albemarle near Plymouth, North Carolina; hurled into the Roanoke River