![](https://pic.pdfchm.net/empty.gif) Encyclopedia of Civil War ShipwrecksOn the evening of February 2, 1864, Confederate Commander John Taylor Wood led 250 sailors in two launches and twelve boats to capture the USS Underwriter, a side-wheel steam gunboat anchored on the Neuse River near New Bern, North Carolina. During the ensuing fifteen-minute battle, nine Union crewmen lost their lives, twenty were wounded,... | ![](https://www.pdfchm.net/pic/empty.gif) | | ![](https://www.pdfchm.net/pic/empty.gif) | |