Comments on: American Civil War: The New Bern Raid http://www.historynet.com/american-civil-war-the-new-bern-raid.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Thu, 23 May 2013 03:22:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Steve Shaffer http://www.historynet.com/american-civil-war-the-new-bern-raid.htm#comment-788682 Steve Shaffer Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:17:42 +0000 #comment-788682 I am a guide at the New Bern Battlefield Park where the Battle of New Bern took place on 14 March 1862. Your information regarding your Great Grandfather, Peter Gilligan, is most interesting, and would like you to consider sending to me any copies of the USS Underwriter raid that would expand upon that information you have already provided. Stories like this greatly enhance our presentations and add a personal element that is an instant success with our visitors to the area. Thank you very much. I am a guide at the New Bern Battlefield Park where the Battle of New Bern took place on 14 March 1862.

Your information regarding your Great Grandfather, Peter Gilligan, is most interesting, and would like you to consider sending to me any copies of the USS Underwriter raid that would expand upon that information you have already provided. Stories like this greatly enhance our presentations and add a personal element that is an instant success with our visitors to the area. Thank you very much.

]]> By: JKBarry http://www.historynet.com/american-civil-war-the-new-bern-raid.htm#comment-7223 JKBarry Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:59:57 +0000 #comment-7223 I have read this article with great interest being a family researcher because my Great Grandfather, Peter Gilligan,at the age of 18,was one of the Union sailors aboard USS UNDERWRITER and was one of the "prisoners" in the small cutter that was overcome and, fortunately for our family, did not jump overboard but made it to the Union lines. He and one other sailor were the two wounded in the boat and were hospitalized. The other man died, Peter Gilligan recovered and later was assigned to the USS HULL. I found most of this information in the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in The War of The Rebellion, May 5, 1863 to May 5, 1864. This was in Series 1, Volume 9, library code, E591.U56. which was in the repository of the Mariner's Museum in Newport News, Virginia. I have read this article with great interest being a family researcher because my Great Grandfather, Peter Gilligan,at the age of 18,was one of the Union sailors aboard USS UNDERWRITER and was one of the "prisoners" in the small cutter that was overcome and, fortunately for our family, did not jump overboard but made it to the Union lines. He and one other sailor were the two wounded in the boat and were hospitalized. The other man died, Peter Gilligan recovered and later was assigned to the USS HULL. I found most of this information in the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in The War of The Rebellion, May 5, 1863 to May 5, 1864. This was in Series 1, Volume 9, library code, E591.U56. which was in the repository of the Mariner's Museum in Newport News, Virginia.

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