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During the night of April 20, 1861, the Commander of the U. S. Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk County, Virginia ( now the Norfolk Naval Yard in the City of Portsmouth, Virginia ) Charles S. McCauley, fearing he could not hold the yard against the rebels and although without instructions from authorities in Washington, D. C., ordered the evacuation and burning of the yard and any ships that could not be sailed away, including the USS Merrimack.
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