JANUARY 20TH
The CSS Florida entered Havana Harbor. A New York correspondent noted that its commander John Newland Maffitt "is no ordinary character. He is vigorous, energetic, bold, quick and dashing, and the sooner he is caught and hung the better it will be for the interest of our commercial community. He is decidedly popular here, and you can scarcely imagine the anxiety evinced to get a glance at him... Nobody, unless informed, would have imagined the small, black-eyed, poetic -looking gentleman, with his romantic appearance, to be a second Semmes, probably in time to be a more celebrated and more dangerous pirate."
Quite an honor to be ranked in there with Semmes. Wilmington's pride.
JANUARY 21ST
The CSS Josiah Bell and Uncle Ben attacked and captured the small blockader USS Morning Light, at Sabine Pass, Texas. Two days later, the Confederates burned the ship after they couldn't get it over the bar.
USS Daylight forced a blockade-running schooner (name unknown) ashore off New Topsail Inlet, NC, and destroyed her.
Old B-Runner
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