Battle of Pig Point

The Battle of Pig Point was an early naval battle of the American Civil War, after Lincoln had extended the Union blockade to include Virginia. On June 5, 1861, the Union gunboat USRC Harriet Lane under Captain John Faunce was ordered to attack Pig Point, but due to shallow water, the shots fell short, and the Union suffered five men wounded before withdrawing.

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1861 Battle of Pig Point

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1775 Battle of Kemp's Landing

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1775 Battle of Great Bridge

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1813 Battle of Craney Island

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1861 Battle of Sewell's Point

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1861 Battle of Big Bethel

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1862 Battle of Hampton Roads

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1863 Battle of Suffolk (Hill's Point)

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1863 Siege of Suffolk

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1864 Battle of Smithfield

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Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
event	armed conflict		Battle of Suffolk	battle	Wikidata
event	armed conflict		Skirmish at Cedar Lane	battle	Wikidata
event	armed conflict	1775	Battle of Kemp's Landing	United States, Kingdom of Great Britain, battle	Wikidata
event	armed conflict	1775	Battle of Great Bridge	United States, battle, Kingdom of Great Britain, Colony of Virginia, Province of North Carolina, William Woodford	Wikidata
event	armed conflict	1813	Battle of Craney Island	United States, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle	Wikidata
event	armed conflict	1861	Battle of Sewell's Point	battle	Wikidata
event	armed conflict	1861	Battle of Pig Point	battle	Wikidata
event	armed conflict	1861	Battle of Big Bethel	battle	Wikidata
event	armed conflict	1862	Battle of Hampton Roads	battle	Wikidata
event	armed conflict	1863	Battle of Suffolk (Hill's Point)	battle	Wikidata
event	armed conflict	1863	Siege of Suffolk	battle, siege	Wikidata
event	armed conflict	1864	Battle of Smithfield	battle	Wikidata
object	watercraft		CSS Virginia	casemate ironclad	Wikidata
object	watercraft		USS Congress	ship	Wikidata
object	watercraft		USS Cumberland	ship	Wikidata
object	watercraft		USS Theodore Roosevelt	supercarrier, Nimitz-class aircraft carrier	Wikidata
object	watercraft		USS Whitehall	steamship	Wikidata
object	watercraft		USS Wisconsin	fast battleship, Iowa-class battleship	Wikidata
object	watercraft	1916	Portsmouth	lightvessel, preserved watercraft	Wikidata
object	watercraft	1962	USS Enterprise	former entity, Enterprise-class aircraft carrier, supercarrier, aircraft carrier	Wikidata
object	watercraft	1998	USS Harry S. Truman	supercarrier, Nimitz-class aircraft carrier	Wikidata
organisation	factory	1767	Norfolk Naval Shipyard	shipyard, shipbuilding	Wikidata
organisation	factory	1886	Newport News Shipbuilding	shipyard, shipbuilding, shipbuilding company	Wikidata
organisation	shipbuilding	2011	Huntington Ingalls Industries	shipbuilding, business, public company, enterprise	Wikidata
site	fort	1775	Fort Norfolk	historic district, fort	Wikidata
site	fort	1834	Fort Monroe	National Park Service, fort, unincorporated community in the United States	Wikidata
site	museum		Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum	military museum, shipyard	Wikidata
site	museum	1994	Nauticus	military museum	Wikidata
site	shipwreck		USS Manta	sunken vessel, attack submarine, Balao-class submarine	Wikidata