![]() ![]() ![]() USS San Jacinto, Lieutenant-Commander Ralph Chandler, captured the schooner Roebuck, bound from Havana for Mobile. USS Tioga, Lieutenant-Commander Edward Y McCauley, seized an unnamed schooner bound from Nassau to Havana with a cargo including salt, coffee, arms, shoes, and liquors. Lee ordered Bendigo destroyed by gunfire from USS Fort Jackson, USS Iron Age, USS Montgomery, USS Daylight, and USS Fahkee.īahamas. Three boat crews were sent to investigate and discovered that the blockade-runner had been partially burned to prevent capture and that it was partially flooded. USS Fahkee, with Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee aboard, sighted the steamer Bendigo aground at Lockwood’s Folly Inlet. ![]() However, Union Major-General Henry Wager Halleck advised Stanton that the Army was already committed to campaigns in Louisiana and Texas and could not spare the men for the attack. US Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles proposed an attack on the fortifications protecting Wilmington, the only port by which supplies could now reach the Confederates, beginning with Fort Caswell. Thirteen steamers ran into Wilmington between 10 and 29 September alone and fourteen ships put to sea between 2 and 19 September 1863. ![]() The US Navy had been pressing for a combined attack on the port of Wilmington since 1862, as it was ideally located for blockade-running, being less than 600 miles from Nassau and only 675 miles from Bermuda. Commander Robert Townsend reported the seizure of the steamer Ben Franklin in the lower Mississippi River for violation of the blockade. USS Nipsic, Commander James H Spotts, landed sailors and Marines at Murrell’s Inlet and destroyed a blockade-runner with a cargo of turpentine. USS Huron, Lieutenant-Commander Francis H Baker, sank the blockade-running British schooner Sylvanus in Doboy Sound, with a cargo of salt, liquor, and cordage. ![]()
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