FEBRUARY 21ST
Flag Officer Farragut formally relieved Flag officer McKean as commander of the West Coast Blockading Squadron. As ships arrived, he sent those whose draft was small enough over the bar at the Southeast Pass to initiate the blockade "in the river." Plans continue for the attack on New Orleans.
Key West was to play a role as a key Naval base.
FEBRUARY 22ND
Naval ships entered Savannah River through Wall's Cut, isolating Fort Pulaski.
Flag Officer Farragut ordered Coast Survey team to sound the Mississippi passes and determine the safest channel for his ships.
FEBRUARY 23RD
Flag Officer Du Pont wrote that he was proceeding to move against points along the SC, Georgia and Florida coasts, saying that in "three weeks I hope to hold everything by and inside or outside blockade from Cape Canaveral to Georgetown, SC."
Flag officer Foote reconnoitered the Mississippi River down to Columbus, Kentucky, with four ironclads, two mortar boats and three transports with a thousand men.
The USS Tyler conducted a reconnaissance on the Tennessee River to East Port, Mississipi. At Clifton, Tn., he seized large supplies of food.
The Confederacy Under Attack from All Quarters. --Old B-R'er
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