Hopefully I will eventually get caught up with these items.
JANUARY 15TH
President Lincoln is back visiting Captain John A. Dahlgren at the Washington Navy Yard regarding gunpowder development. One of his frequent trips there to observe developments in technology.
JANUARY 16TH
The CSS Florida, Lt. John N. Maffitt, ran blockade out of Mobile, Alabama, in the early morning. The ship had been at Mobile four months having its equipment overhauled. Confusion in the Union fleet helped thee scape.
Arrived in Havana Jan. 20th and debarked prisoners from her first prize. U.S. consul-general there described the ship as "a bark-rigged propeller, quite fast under steam and canvas; has two smoke-stacks fore and aft of each other, close together; has a battery of four 42's or 68's of a side, and two large pivot guns. Her crew consists of 135 men...is a wooden vessel of about 1,500 tons."
This escape along with other setbacks in the Gulf, greatly bothered Admiral Farragut, who wrote: "This squadron, as Sam Barron used to say, 'is eating its dirt now'--Galveston skedaddled, the Hatteras sunk by the Alabama, and now the Oreto [Florida] out."
Who "Skedaddled?" --Old B-Runner
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