Lt. Charles Read

Charles Read was born in Satartia in 1840 and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1860 before joining the Confederate navy. In June 1863 he took a captured vessel, the Clarence, on a raid of his own, moving to the prizes Tacony and Archer along the way. By its end he had captured or destroyed 22 Union vessels. He was taken on June 27 off Portland, Maine, while trying to seize a revenue cutter, and held at Fort Warren until July 1865. He later helped train Peru's navy in torpedo use and died in Meridian in 1890.

Where it stands

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