OCTOBER 28TH
Group led by Lt. John Taylor Wood, CSN, boarded, captured and burned the ship Alligator at anchor in the Chesapeake Bay off the mouth of the Rappahannock River with a cargo of guano from Baltimore to London. Something's mighty batty around here. Now who would want to capture a load of ..... .
CSS Alabama captured and burned Lauratta south of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
USS Montgomery, Commander Hunter, captured b-r steamer Carolina near Pensacola. Usually I just do blockade-runners off Wilmington, but this was the guy and ship that in trouble for capturing a b-r in Cuban waters that I wrote about last week.
OCTOBER 29TH
Landing party from the USS Ellis, Lt. Cushing, destroyed a large Confederate salt works at New Topsail Inlet, NC. Cushing reported that "it could have furnished all Wilmington with salt."
USS Dan exchanged fire with Confederate troops near Sabine Pass, Texas. It shelled the town on Oct. 30th and landed sailors and burned a mill and several buildings.
CSS Alabama seized the brigantine Baron de Castine south of Nova Scotia. The ship was old and of little value so Semmes reported, "I released her on ransom bond and converted her into a cartel, sending some forty-five prisoners on board of her--the crews of the three last ships burned."
Some Mighty Good Pickins Off Nova Scotia. --Old B-Runner
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