From the May 7, 2011, Mobile (Al) Press Register "Today in History: Mobile ships beat the blockade as Civil War begins."
Two Mobile boats, the Dick Keys and Henry Lewis had been engaged since January, 1861, carrying provisions and war materials from Mobile to Pensacola, Florida for Confederate troops quartered at the Florida Navy Yard and barracks.
The first notification of the Northern blockade occurred when a Union ship under the command of David D. Porter stopped the Lewis and insisted the two steamers go to Pensacola, adding that they would be the last Southern vessels allowed to enter port.
Porter must have been in the USS Powhatan, a steam frigate.
And, So it Begins. --Old B-Runner
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