SEPTEMBER 26TH
The USS State of Georgia and Mystic chased a blockade-running schooner (name unknown) ashore at New Inlet, NC, and destroyed it.
Rear Admiral Du Pont wants "mobile support" in the form of ships holding 1000 tons of coal and with hoisting equipment to be on blockade station. This way, the blockading ships would not have to leave station and sail to supply depots to replenish.
This antedated the modern use of fleet oilers. Store ships, receiving ships and machinery repair hulks were already being used at Port Royal, the principal base of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron.
SEPTEMBER 28TH
The USS State of Georgia and Mystic captured British blockade-running steamer Sunbeam near New Inlet, NC.
SEPTEMBER 30TH
Asst. Sec. of the Navy Fox wrote Commodore Blake, Superintendent of the Naval Academy, now located at Newport, RI, that "The seamanship is of utmost importance, in my opinion, notwithstanding steam, and iron clads. I share the old Jack Tar feeling that a sailor can do anything, and that a man is not goof for much, who is not a thorough seaman."
D.D. Porter was afraid training was getting too scientific.
Old B-R'er
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