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Presenter
John V. Quarstein
Director emeritus of the USS Monitor Center
About the Lecture
In April 1861, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles sent Lt. John L. Worden on a secret mission. Worden’s duty: give verbal instructions to US Navy warships off Pensacola, Florida, to land soldiers supporting Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island. When he tried to return to Washington, DC, by train, Worden was captured by Confederate authorities and imprisoned in the city jail in Montgomery, Alabama, becoming the Civil War’s first POW. He was exchanged in November 1861 for Lt. William Sharpe, CSN.
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Location: Explorers Theater
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Image header:
Columbiad guns of the Confederate water battery at Warrington, Florida, February 1861. J. D. Edwards, photographer. National Archives.