JULY 17TH TO 19TH
Force of 40 Marines and sailors from USS Potomac, New London and Grey Cloud go up Pascagoula River, Mississippi, to capture or destroy a steamer and two schooners rumored to be loading cotton and to destroy telegraph between Pascagoula and Mobile.
Succeeded in disrupting communications but forced to turn back when encountered Confederate cavalry and infantry.
Many such actions like this oocurred all salong the coasts during the war.
JULY 18TH
The US Secretary of Navy notifies all flag officers that the president now can appoint three midshipman to the Naval Academy from the enlisted boys of the Navy. Each flag officer requested to appoint one boy.
JULY 19TH
Confederate Naval court martial in Richmond acquits Flag officer Tattnall with honor for destruction of the CSS Virginia on May 11 during the evacuation of Norfolk.
Old B-Runner
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