Whitehall shipyard (CSS Neuse)
Naval works, Seven Springs (Whitehall), North Carolina.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Naval works
- Where
- Seven Springs (Whitehall), North Carolina
- Years
- 1862-1865
- Today
- State historic site
WHITEHALL SHIPYARD
Howard and Ellis began the ironclad CSS Neuse in October 1862 across the river from Whitehall. A shortage of iron plate left her deck unarmored. Neuse grounded off Kinston in 1864 and served as a floating battery, and her crew burned and blew her up in March 1865.
BATTLE OF WHITEHALL
On December 15-16, 1862, on a raid at Whitehall, Union troops led by Gen. J. G. Foster damaged the Confederate Ram "Neuse."
Then
Howard and Ellis began the ironclad CSS Neuse in October 1862 across the river from Whitehall. A shortage of iron plate left her deck unarmored.
Neuse grounded off Kinston in 1864 and served as a floating battery. Her crew burned and blew her up in March 1865 as Union forces advanced on Kinston.
Now
State historic site
The raised lower hull and recovered artifacts are on display at the CSS Neuse Civil War Museum in Kinston, a state historic site.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by Norfolk Southern, about 7 miles from the center of Seven Springs (Whitehall).
Nearby
- 13 miFoster burns the Wilmington and Weldon bridge at GoldsboroDecember 17, 1862, Neuse River bridge, Goldsboro, North Carolina
- 14 miGoldsboro junctionConfederate · Rail junction, Goldsboro, North Carolina
- 14 miGoldsboro (Sherman's resupply, March 1865)Union · Rail junction, Goldsboro, North Carolina
- 14 miSherman's armies resupply at GoldsboroMarch 23, 1865, Goldsboro, North Carolina
- 18 miBattle of Wyse Fork on the New Bern to Goldsboro railroadMarch 8, 1865, Wyse Fork, near Kinston, North Carolina
- 20 miConfederate Armory, KenansvilleConfederate · Armory, Kenansville, North Carolina