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Hatteras, forts at.
In the summer of 1861 the Confederates built two forts on Hatteras Island, off the coast of North Carolina, to guard the entrance to Hatteras Inlet, through which blockade-runners had begun to carry supplies to the Confederates.
Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, then in command at Fort Monroe, proposed sending a land and naval force against these forts.
It was done.
An expedition composed of eight transports and war-ships, under the command of Commodore Stringham, and bearing about 900 land-troops, under the command of General Butler, left Hampton Roads for Hatteras Inlet on Aug. 20.
On the morning of the 28th the war-ships opened their guns on the forts (Hatteras and Clark). and some of the troops were landed.
The warships of the expedition were the Minnesota (flag-ship), Pawnee, Harriet Lane, Monticello, Wabash, Cumberland, and Susquehanna.
The condition of the surf made the landing difficult, and only about 300 men got on shore.
The forts were under the comm
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Stringham, Silas Horton 1798-1876
Naval officer; born in Middletown, N. Y., Nov. 7, 1798; entered the navy as midshipman at eleven years of age, and was lieutenant at sixteen.
He was with Rodgers in the affray between the President and Little Belt, and in 1815 was in Decatur's expedition against the Barbary States.
In 1820 h nveyed the first immigrants that settled on the coast of Liberia, Africa, and formed the nucleus of the republic of Liberia.
In the war against Mexico, Captain Stringham, in command of the Ohio, took part in the bombardment of Vera Cruz.
He was afterwards in command of different squadrons, and in 1861 was appointed flag-officer of the Atlantic blockading squadron and ordered to the Minnesota
Silas Horton Stringham. as his flag-ship.
With her he went as joint commander with Butler, with the land and naval expedition which captured the forts at Hatteras Inlet, Aug. 27-28.
In September he was relieved at his own request; in July, 1862, was made a rearad