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Offline macNnc

this explains a lot....
« on: May 20, 2008, 11:08:38 AM »
..I was uptown a few days ago, and I noticed a historical marker just down the street from the "Square"  (the center of uptown Charlotte) saying that "Confederate Naval Yard was on this spot"...

Charlotte is something like 200 plus miles from the coast.  

No wonder we lost!
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« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2008, 12:09:07 PM »
In 1862, the Confederates moved a “Marine Engineering Works and Naval Ordnance Depot” from Norfolk Virginia, where it was threatened by Federal Troops to it’s location at the Mecklenburg Iron Works in Charlotte North Carolina through at least  January 7, 1864 when a fire ravaged the yard.

Either that...or you found the beginning of Naval aviation   :Doh!
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Offline Minnesota Mike

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« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2008, 12:24:51 PM »
Is Charlotte on a river?

If so - could be where they made river craft. The civil war had an amazing amount of river craft made by both side to sieze control of interior commercial waterways.

I think the Confederates also had some of their armored ships and blockade runners made well inland - away from probes and raids by Federal blockaders.

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« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2008, 06:21:52 PM »
yeah Charlotte is on a river, The Catawaba,  but it is hardly naviable down it's entire length.  I've canoed it from Charlotte, (actually Lake Wylie) down to Charleston.  It turns into the Wateree down in SC somewhere, but it ain't no river to try and get a craft intended for ocean use down.
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Re: this explains a lot....
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2016, 11:29:41 PM »
They put it there because the Yankee ships couldn't hit squat that far!!! :hairy :bl th up
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