MARCH 20TH
Farragut wrote Grant and Porter that he would like to close off the Red River trade and recapture the Queen of the West and Indianola if he had coal.. Porter replied that running the Vicksburg batteries would not be a good idea. Grant floated a coal barge down to Farragut.
MARCH 21ST
The USS Victoria captured the blockade-runner Nicolai I in "thick and rainy" weather off Cape Fear. It was carrying a cargo of dry goods, arms and ammunition and had been turned back from a similar attempt at Charleston two days earlier.
MARCH 22ND
General Sherman's troops reached Porter's ships at Steele's Bayou, but the admiral did not consider there to be enough and called off the expedition. His ships had to drift downriver and at a bend, Confederates had felled trees and a brisk fight ensued.
Thus ended what Porter termed "a most novel expedition."
Farragut tells Grant that the Confederates were building a very formidable casemated work at Warrenton.
Old B-Runner
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