Description: 1861 PORT ROYAL EXPEDITION TO SO. CAROLINA THAT FREED 1000s OF SLAVES W.R.TAYLOR, Supercargo (probably William Rogers Taylor, who went on to command Naval operations in North and South Carolina and was later promoted to Commodore in command of one fleet of the Pacific Squadron).Autograph Document Signed. Annapolis, Maryland, October 19, 1861. 1 page. To M.R.MORGAN, Commissioner of Subsistence, US Army. A list of Commissary Stores and Rations on board the Steamship Roanoke, including the companies or merchants who supplied the Stores and their location on the ship. The listed goods aboard the vessell, which would also carry 700 New York troops, included 1000 barrels of dried apples, bacon, bread, coffee, flour, pickles and pork, and 380 barrels and boxes of beans, bread, coffee, flour, pork, potatoes, rice, salt, sugar and vinegar, for troop rations, (plus 63 boxes of soap, supplied by the Colgate company). Few words of docketing on verso; otherwise Very Good overall. Two weeks after this document was signed, the Roanoke was one of 16 steamships of the great Naval expedition, commanded by Admiral Samuel DuPont, which carried 15,000 Union troops south from Annapolis to capture Port Royal Sound, South Carolina in one of the first large amphibious operations of the Civil War. In addition to its cargo, the vessel carried some 700 men of the 47th Regiment of New York Volunteers. As it happened, much of the cargo listed on this form had to be thrown overboard to save the troops when the ship was battered by a storm on its journey down the coast. Because of losses in the storm, the troops were not able to land and the Battle of Port Royal became a contest between the guns on the ships and the batteries in the Confederate forts on shore. The Naval guns carried the day, giving the Union a significant victory, occupying a strategic Southern harbor between Savannah and Charleston, which later took on importance for another reason: After the Union occupation, Southern planters in the vicinity fled, leaving behind thousands of their Black slaves who, now freed from enslavement, and joined, after the Emancipation Proclamation, by escaped slaves from other points South, became the nucleus of the first community of freedmen in America, long before the sad era of Reconstruction.
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