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Battle of Portland Harbor
The Battle of Portland Harbor was an incident during the American Civil War, in June 1863, in the waters off Portland, Maine. Two civilian ships engaged two vessels under Confederate States Navy employment.
==Background==
Around June 24, a Confederate raider named the ''Tacony'', commanded by Lieutenant Charles Read, CSN, was being pursued by the Union Navy. To thwart their pursuers, at about 2 AM on the 25th, the Confederates captured the ''Archer'', a Maine fishing schooner out of Southport. After transferring their supplies and cargo onto ''Archer'', the Confederates set fire to ''Tacony'', hoping the Union Navy would believe the ship was destroyed.
On June 26, a raiding party entered the harbor at Portland, sailing past Portland Head Light. The rebels disguised themselves as fishermen and entered into Portland Harbor late in the evening. They planned to slip back out of the harbor and try to destroy the area's commercial shipping capability.
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