FEBRUARY 18TH
The USS Victoria, captured the brig Minna near Shallotte Inlet, NC, with cargo of salt and drugs. One of the original drug runners?
FEBRUARY 19TH
The Confederate Navy Department decides to mount an expedition to destroy the Union monitors at Charleston. Sec. Navy Mallory suggests to Lt. William A. Webb, CSN:
FIRST, row-boats and barges to board the monitors.
SECOND, small steamers, two or three to attack each ship
THIRD, the hull of a single-decked ship to be protected by compressed cotton, to be used to board the monitors.
Old B-Runner
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