Record #:

19561

Author(s):

Gerard, Philip

Abstract:

Born and raised in New York, John Newland Maffitt began a long and storied naval career with a midshipman's commission in the United States Navy in 1832. Later he servds aboard the USS Constitution and was ordered to the United States Coast Survey to chart the southern harbors of Savannah, Charleston, and Wilmington. As a transplant to the South, Maffitt takes up the illicit activity of razing Union vessels during the Civil War and an account of his escapades and prizes won are outlined in this article.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 1, June 2013, p56-66, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives