Confederate Navy Yard, Mars Bluff
Naval works, Marion, South Carolina.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Naval works
- Where
- Marion, South Carolina
- Years
- 1863-1865
- Today
- Marker only
MARS BLUFF NAVY YARD
The Confederacy set up a navy yard on the Great Pee Dee River about 1863. Under Lt. Van R. Morgan it built the wooden gunboat CSS Pee Dee, launched by November 1864. The gunboat was burned in March 1865 to prevent its capture.
Confederate Navy Yard
Confederacy established a navy yard ¼ mile NW about 1863 on the banks of the Great Pee Dee River. Here, under the command of Lt. Van Renssalaer Morgan, a wooden gunboat, the C.S.S. Pee Dee, was built. Launched by November 1864, it was burned to prevent its capture by Federal Forces in March 1865.
Then
The Confederacy set up a navy yard on the Great Pee Dee River about 1863. Under Lt. Van R. Morgan it built the wooden gunboat CSS Pee Dee, launched by November 1864.
The gunboat was burned in March 1865 to prevent its capture.
Now
Marker only
A state marker stands in the median of US 76 just east of the Great Pee Dee River.
Lines owned by CSX run through Marion today.
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