Reliance Is Destroyed To Prevent Its Recapture By The Union Navy
The Southerners took their two prizes to Port Royal, Virginia, only to be destroyed on 28 August to prevent their recapture by approaching Union cavalry under Gen. Hugh Judson Kilpatrick.
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