JULY 23RD
Asst. Secretary of the US Navy wrote that work on the ironclads was progressing, "We have forty underweigh, and are putting others in hand as fast as contracts for engines shall be made. The machinery for manufacturing marine engines is limited." The Union Navy's rapid change from wood to iron doomed the Confederate effort to break the Union stranglehold with those of their own.
JULY 24TH
Rear Admiral Farragut's fleet departs it station below Vicksburg due to the falling Mississippi River. The ships. hey ended up at Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Confederate control of Vicksburg allowed some supplies to reach the Confederacy from west of the river.
JULY 28TH
The brig Agrippa was ordered to rendezvous with steamer Enrica, afterwards known as the CSS Alabama in the Azores to transfer guns, ammunition, coal and other cargo to the Alabama.
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