JANUARY 7TH
Confederate Sec. of Navy Mallory wrote Commander Bulloch in Liverpool concerning the importance of the ships being built in England" :...Push these ships ahead as rapidly as possible. Our difficulty lies in providing you with funds, but you may rely upon receiving cotton certificates sooner or later."
JANUARY 7-9TH
Joint Army-Navy expedition up the Pamunkey River destroyed boats, barges and stores at West Point and White House, Virginia.
JANUARY 8TH
General Grant wrote Commander Pennock in Cairo requesting urgently needed gunboats to protect transports carrying reinforcements to Vicksburg.
USS Tahoma, under Lt. Cmdr. Alexander A. Semmes, captured blockade-runner Silas Henry aground at Tampa Bay with a cargo of cotton. Is this Semmes related to the Alabama's Semmes?
JANUARY 9TH
Boat crews from the USS Ethan Allen destroyed a large salt manufactory south of St. Joseph's, Florida.
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