Qualla: Battle of Pig Point https://qualla.com/battle-of-pig-point en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Pig Point https://qualla.com/battle-of-pig-point Battle of Pig Point: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-pig-point/ The Nansemond River is shallow at Pig Point, shallow enough that on June 5, 1861, Captain John Faunce of the USRC Harriet Lane could not get his gunboat close enough to the Confederate battery on the bluff. He fired thirty shots anyway. Most of them splashed short in the muddy water. The Confederate gunners fired back with the heavy iron they had hauled from the captured Gosport Navy Yard a few weeks earlier, and they wounded five of his crew. Faunce decided the battery was strong, marked his mission complete, and turned for Fort Monroe. The whole thing took an afternoon. Nobody died. And yet it was one of the first naval shots fired in a war that would last four more years.

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