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CSS Drewry

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In addition to transporting troops and other routine service, she took part in several engagements along the river prior to January 24, 1865, when, in
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to get afloat; all but two of her crew had reached safety before the explosion. The wreck of the CSS Drewry was found by
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in 1985, buried under the silt in upper reach of the old channel tidal flat about two hundred yards from south shore.
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The wreck of a Confederate gunboat on the James River in 1865, believed to be that of CSS Drewry.
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Index


Drewry Fort
gunboat
Confederate States Navy
American Civil War
French Forrest
James River Squadron
Lewis Parrish
CSN
Trent's Reach
1st Connecticut Artillery
CSS Richmond
Clive Cussler
William Harwar Parker
Lewis Parrish
William B. Hall
William H. Wall
Battle of Trent's Reach
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