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Posted on 1/10/14 at 9:37 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Posted on 1/10/14 at 9:37 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Monday, 11 January 1864
Yesterday saw the loss of the USS Iron Age in Lockwoods Folly Inlet after she ran aground and was destroyed by shore batteries. Today saw the loss of two more ships of the Federal blockade in the same inlet. In this case they were chased by Confederate ships too close to shore, and also ran aground. They were then burned to the waterline to prevent capture.
Flag Officer Samuel Barron, senior Confederate naval officer in France, reported to Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory that he had placed Lieutenant Charles M. Morris in command of the CSS Florida, relieving Commander Joseph N. Barney whose ill health prevented active service afloat. The Florida had completed her repairs and on a trial run "...made 13 knots under steam." The CSS Rappahannock was "...repairing slowly but surely..." as she would be armed with the battery from the CSS Georgia, no longer fit for duty as a cruiser. He concluded: "You are doubtless, sir, aware that three Confederate 'men-of-war' are now enjoying the hospitality and natural courtesies of this Empire-a strange contrast with the determined hostility, I may almost say, of Earl Russell Louis Napoleon is not Lord John Russell!"
The USS Minnesota, Daylight, Aries, and Governor Buckingham intercepted the blockade runner Ranger, commanded by Lieutenant George W. Gift, CSN, and forced her aground at the Western Bar of Lockwoods Folly Inlet, South Carolina. Since Southern sharpshooters precluded salvage, the Ranger, carrying a cargo for the Confederate government, was destroyed by Union forces. The Aries, under Acting Lieutenant Edward F. Devens, also investigated a fire observed between Tubb's and Little River Inlets and found the "fine-looking double propeller blockade runner" Vesta beached and in flames. The Vesta had been sighted and chased the night before by the USS Keystone State, Quaker City and Tuscarora.
The USS Honeysuckle, Acting Ensign Cyrus Sears, captured the blockade running British schooner Fly near Jupiter Inlet, Florida.
Boat crews from the USS Roebuck, Acting Master Sherrill in charge, captured the blockade running British schooner Susan at Jupiter Inlet with a large cargo including salt.
Yesterday saw the loss of the USS Iron Age in Lockwoods Folly Inlet after she ran aground and was destroyed by shore batteries. Today saw the loss of two more ships of the Federal blockade in the same inlet. In this case they were chased by Confederate ships too close to shore, and also ran aground. They were then burned to the waterline to prevent capture.
Flag Officer Samuel Barron, senior Confederate naval officer in France, reported to Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory that he had placed Lieutenant Charles M. Morris in command of the CSS Florida, relieving Commander Joseph N. Barney whose ill health prevented active service afloat. The Florida had completed her repairs and on a trial run "...made 13 knots under steam." The CSS Rappahannock was "...repairing slowly but surely..." as she would be armed with the battery from the CSS Georgia, no longer fit for duty as a cruiser. He concluded: "You are doubtless, sir, aware that three Confederate 'men-of-war' are now enjoying the hospitality and natural courtesies of this Empire-a strange contrast with the determined hostility, I may almost say, of Earl Russell Louis Napoleon is not Lord John Russell!"
The USS Minnesota, Daylight, Aries, and Governor Buckingham intercepted the blockade runner Ranger, commanded by Lieutenant George W. Gift, CSN, and forced her aground at the Western Bar of Lockwoods Folly Inlet, South Carolina. Since Southern sharpshooters precluded salvage, the Ranger, carrying a cargo for the Confederate government, was destroyed by Union forces. The Aries, under Acting Lieutenant Edward F. Devens, also investigated a fire observed between Tubb's and Little River Inlets and found the "fine-looking double propeller blockade runner" Vesta beached and in flames. The Vesta had been sighted and chased the night before by the USS Keystone State, Quaker City and Tuscarora.
The USS Honeysuckle, Acting Ensign Cyrus Sears, captured the blockade running British schooner Fly near Jupiter Inlet, Florida.
Boat crews from the USS Roebuck, Acting Master Sherrill in charge, captured the blockade running British schooner Susan at Jupiter Inlet with a large cargo including salt.
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Posted on 1/11/14 at 5:38 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Tuesday, 12 January 1864
Although not technically a War Between the States operation, Federal troops were obliged to take part in two days of hostilities commencing this morning, in the rather unlikely setting of Matamoros, Mexico, just a few miles across the border from Brownsville, Texas. Since the days of the United States of America’s last great military adventure--the Mexican War--the political situation south of the now Confederate environs had existed in fluctuating states of steadiness. This was not one of the more stable of times with the Great American War raging just north of the country's boundary anyway, and now two Hispanic political factions of roughly equal influence were contending for control of this city.
Federal forces were obliged to step in when it seemed that the person and residence of the American Consul in Mexico--Maine native Leonard J. Pierce--had become a target of hostilities. As the War roared to the north, Matamoros became a center of Confederate commerce. Texans shipped cotton from the un-blockaded port, while Unionist refugees fleeing Texas collected in the town. Pierce's principal responsibilities were the care of refugees from Confederate territory and the military enlistment of Union sympathizers. During his service he reported relocating about 700 refugees and sending about 300 men to enlist in the Union army. Pierce was, at the end of the action, escorted out of town for his own protection.
Under cover of the USS Yankee, Currituck, Anacostia, Tulip, and Jacob Bell, commanded by Acting Lieutenant Edward Hooker, Union cavalry and infantry under General Gilman Marston landed on the peninsula between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, capturing "...a small body of the enemy and a large number of cavalry horses." The gunboats supported the Army operations on the 13th and 14th, and covered the re-embarkation of the soldiers on the 15th.
A large portion of Colonel Edward Moody McCook's cavalry attacked the Eighth and Eleventh Texas Confederate Regiments, at Mossy Creek, Tennessee, and forced an orderly retreat, killing fourteen and capturing forty-one of them.
Numerous contributions were made in Georgia to equip a new command for Confederate General John Hunt Morgan according to the Richmond Whig. Among the contributors was Governor Joseph E. Brown, who gave five hundred dollars.
Although not technically a War Between the States operation, Federal troops were obliged to take part in two days of hostilities commencing this morning, in the rather unlikely setting of Matamoros, Mexico, just a few miles across the border from Brownsville, Texas. Since the days of the United States of America’s last great military adventure--the Mexican War--the political situation south of the now Confederate environs had existed in fluctuating states of steadiness. This was not one of the more stable of times with the Great American War raging just north of the country's boundary anyway, and now two Hispanic political factions of roughly equal influence were contending for control of this city.
Federal forces were obliged to step in when it seemed that the person and residence of the American Consul in Mexico--Maine native Leonard J. Pierce--had become a target of hostilities. As the War roared to the north, Matamoros became a center of Confederate commerce. Texans shipped cotton from the un-blockaded port, while Unionist refugees fleeing Texas collected in the town. Pierce's principal responsibilities were the care of refugees from Confederate territory and the military enlistment of Union sympathizers. During his service he reported relocating about 700 refugees and sending about 300 men to enlist in the Union army. Pierce was, at the end of the action, escorted out of town for his own protection.
Under cover of the USS Yankee, Currituck, Anacostia, Tulip, and Jacob Bell, commanded by Acting Lieutenant Edward Hooker, Union cavalry and infantry under General Gilman Marston landed on the peninsula between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, capturing "...a small body of the enemy and a large number of cavalry horses." The gunboats supported the Army operations on the 13th and 14th, and covered the re-embarkation of the soldiers on the 15th.
A large portion of Colonel Edward Moody McCook's cavalry attacked the Eighth and Eleventh Texas Confederate Regiments, at Mossy Creek, Tennessee, and forced an orderly retreat, killing fourteen and capturing forty-one of them.
Numerous contributions were made in Georgia to equip a new command for Confederate General John Hunt Morgan according to the Richmond Whig. Among the contributors was Governor Joseph E. Brown, who gave five hundred dollars.
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