MARCH 1ST
Union gunboats engage Confederates fortifying Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing) site of the upcoming Battle of Shiloh. Sailors put ashore to fight. Flag officer Foote tells ship commanders to no longer land men to fight ashore as there are just enough to man the guns on ships.Let the Army fight on land.
Foote also again requests funds to turn captured Confederate gunboat Eastport into a Union warship.
USS Mount Vernon, Cmdr. Glisson, captures blockade-runner British Queen off Wilmington with cargo including salt and coffee.
MARCH 3RD
Flag Officer Du Pont, commanding a joint expedition to Fernandina, Florida (northeast corner of state) reports capturing all of Cumberland Island and sound, Fernandina and Amelia Island, and town of St. Mary's. Confederates were in the process of withdrawing heavy guns and offered little resistance. (following General Lee's directive).
Fort Clinch, on Amelia Island, taken by a boat crew from the USS Ottawa. Becomes the first former US fort to be retaken.
Another Chunk of the Confederacy, Gone. --Old B-Runner
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