. Heroes of Albany A memorial of the patriot-martyrs of the city and county of Albany, who sacrificed their lives during the late war in defence of our nation, 1861-1865, with a view of what was done in the county to sustain the United States government; and also brief histories of the Albany regiments . universally esteemed as an afFection-ate, noble minded and strictly moral young man. The death of his father, June 18, 1864, left Robert an orphan,and he enlisted in the naval service of his country in the monthof September, 1864. In a short time after his enlistment, hewas on board the receiv
. Heroes of Albany A memorial of the patriot-martyrs of the city and county of Albany, who sacrificed their lives during the late war in defence of our nation, 1861-1865, with a view of what was done in the county to sustain the United States government; and also brief histories of the Albany regiments . universally esteemed as an afFection-ate, noble minded and strictly moral young man. The death of his father, June 18, 1864, left Robert an orphan,and he enlisted in the naval service of his country in the monthof September, 1864. In a short time after his enlistment, hewas on board the receiving ship Vermont. From that vesselhe was drafted as one of the crew of a small but unique craft,which was registered in our navy as Picket Boat No. 1. Thisvessel was forty feet in length and ten in width, carried one gun,a twelve-pounder, and was furnished with a long projecting tim-ber, called torpedo boom, and which was designed to run tor-pedoes under rebel vessels. Her commander was Lieut. vessel sailed from the Brooklyn Navy Yard September 22,1864, and proceeded immediately to her place of destination,which was Plymouth, North Carolina. On the 28th of the nextmonth (October), one of the most perilous achievements of thewhole war was accomplished by this little craft. She blew up. /tfdL^ ?/- -J^nf EGBERT II. KING. 689 and entirely destroyed by her torpedoes the rebel ram Albe-marle, that had already inflicted serious injuries upon us. In this enterprise, though not until it was perfectly successful,Robert H. King, together with almost all of the little crew ofthe picket boat, were taken prisoners. From Plymouth he wasimmediately sent to Salisbury, North Carolina, where alreadythousands of our brave men were imprisoned, and where multi-tudes died by exposures or starvation. From early in November,1864, to March, 1865, a period of little more than four months,Mr. King was an inmate of that prison; and because he had beenwith others the instrument of inflicting a v
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