Monitor Receives Her Commander; Florida Port Taken by Union Navy
Eric | January 16, 2012
January 16, 1862 (Thursday) The war had not started easily for John Worden, a forty-four year old career Navy-man, who was a midshipman at age sixteen. He had the dubious distinction of becoming one of the prisoners of war in the operations to reinforce Fort Pickens just as Sumter was being fired upon. While Worden [...]













