NOVEMBER 10TH
Confederate commander Maury, en route to Liverpool, England wrote his wife from Halifax, Nova Scotia and found that the people there "are strongly 'secesh'."
NOVEMBER 11TH AND 12TH
The USS Kensington capture two different blockade-runners off the Florida coast.
NOVEMBER 14TH
Rear Admiral Farragut had been at Pensacola, preparing for an attack on Mobile, but developments on the Mississippi River necessitated his return. The French and British had ships in the vicinity "and we sailors understand each other better in many cases than landsmen."
He was pressuring General Butler as to when he could get a force of troops "to attack Fort Gaines (by Mobile Harbor)...I would attack the forts and go through to Mobile Bay without his assistance, but it would embarrass me very much not to have my communication open with the outside."
So, plans are afoot to attack the forts guarding Mobile Bay if troops can assist in the reduction of the forts.
Old B-R'er
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