APRIL 1ST
Preparations for the naval attack on Charleston, SC, enter their final week. Du Pont sent ironclads Passaic, Montaul, Patapsco and Keokuk to the North Edisto River. Gunboat Sebago to Calibogue Sound to cover western approach to naval base at Hilton Head Island.
Du Pont was to take personal command of the Charleston assault. He left April 2nd on the USS James Adger to that point.
The USS Tuscumbia with Porter, Grant and Sherman on board, reconnoitered the Yazoo River to determine practicality of landing a force at Haynes' Bluff. They decided not.
APRIL 2ND
Fox wrote Porter that Lincoln was "rather disgusted with the flanking expeditions [at Yazoo Pass and Steele's Bayou] and predicted their failure from the first." In other words, get a move on.
Lincoln informed Welles that he wanted Farragut's force strengthened and Welles wrote Du Pont to send all of his ironclads but two to Farragut after the Charleston attack.
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