MAY 5TH
President Lincoln goes to Hampton Roads on the steamer Miami to personally direct the stalled Peninsular Campaign. He directed gunboat operations in the James River and the bombardment of Sewell's Point in the five days he acted as Commander-in-Chief in the field.
MAY 6TH-7TH
USS Wachusett, Chocura and Sebago escorted Army transports up the York River and supported the landing at West Point, Virginia.
MAY 8TH
USS Monitor, Dacotah, Naugatuck, Seminole and Susquehanna, by "direction of the President," shelled Confederate batteries at Sewell's Point. Lincoln receives news that Norfolk is being abandoned and that the CSS Virginia planning to proceed up the James or York rivers. Plans made for a battle between the two ironclads should the Virginia initiate one. The idea was for the Monitor to draw the Virginia into deep water where it could be rammed by Union steamers.
A landing party from the USS Iroquois seized the arsenal and took possession of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
More and More Confederate Losses. --Old B-Runner
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