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 PorkChopExpress
      
Location: Pled's Pig Farm, Virginia
Gender: Male
Stand Up Philosopher
 |  | Drewry's Bluff
< on 9/21/2008 1:18 AM >
|  | | | Drewry's Bluff rose 90 feet above the water and commanded a sharp bend in the James River, making it a logical site for defensive fortifications. On March 17,1862, the men of Captain Drewry's Southside Artillery arrived at the bluff and began fortifying the area. They constructed earthworks, erected barracks, dug artillery emplacements, and mounted three large seacoast guns (one 10-inch Columbiad and two 8-inch Columbiads) in the fort.
Map courtesy of the Mann family. It was drawn by Horace Mann in 1914. His father, Samuel fought at Drewry's Bluff as a member of the Southside Artillery.
On May 9,1862, Norfolk fell to Union forces. Commander Ebeneezer Farrand ordered numerous steamers, schooners, and sloops to be sunk as obstructions in the river beneath the bluff.(The shallow water buoy marks where the remains of those ships lie.) Six more large guns occupied pits just upriver from the fort. Men worked around the clock to ensure a full state of readiness when the Union fleet arrived.
The Federal squadron steamed around the bend in the river below Drewry's Bluff early on the morning of May 15. At 7:15 a.m. the ironclad Galena opened fire on the fort, sending three giant projectiles toward the Confederate position. When Confederate batteries in the fort replied, the whole vicinity shook with the concussion of the big guns.
After four long hours of exchanging fire, the "perfect tornado of shot and shell" ended. A visitor wrote that the Galena "looked like a slaughterhouse" after the battle. The massive fort on Drewry's Bluff had blunted the Union advance just seven miles short of the Confederate capital. Richmond remained safe.
All information taken from - http://www.nps.gov...e/rich/ri_drew.htm
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Ophie
| |  | Re: Drewry's Bluff
<Reply # 1 on 9/21/2008 1:34 AM >
| | | | Very cool Mr. PCE!
Show up at 9:30 with 15 dollars cash and your fingers crossed.
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SeeThirty
Location: Indialantic, Florida
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| |  |  | | Re: Drewry's Bluff
<Reply # 2 on 9/21/2008 1:56 AM >
| | | | Excellent pics! 
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PorkChopExpress
Location: Pled's Pig Farm, Virginia
Gender: Male
Stand Up Philosopher
| | Re: Drewry's Bluff
<Reply # 3 on 9/21/2008 5:38 PM >
| | | | Thanks to both of you!
"Deep in the human psyche there lies the need to believe in something fantastic, something powerful, something unknown."
"Touch what you cannot solve, and return to me. I'll give you hints, and I'll give you three..." Zork Nemesis "I eat asbestos and piss PCBs." |
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Coker19
Location: Westminster, Maryland
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Drewry's Bluff
<Reply # 4 on 9/24/2008 8:05 PM >
| | | | Ah, I passed through that way about two years ago now.
I've got pictures of the fortification, as long as I can find them on my hard drive somewhere.
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