USS Gunboats Pawnee and Freeborn firing on Mathias Point in Virginia. Ruggles took part in beating off a Union Navy landing party trying to establish a shore battery on the Potomac River June 27, 1861. (Alfred R. Waud/Library of Congress)
USS Gunboats Pawnee and Freeborn firing on Mathias Point in Virginia. Ruggles took part in beating off a Union Navy landing party trying to establish a shore battery on the Potomac River June 27, 1861. (Alfred R. Waud/Library of Congress)