APRIL 15TH
CSS Alabama captured whalers Kate Cory and Lafayette off Brazil
USS Monticello captured the schooner Odd Fellow near Little River, NC, with cargo of turpentine and rosin.
APRIL 16-17
Porter's gunboats, shepherding Army transports, ran past Vicksburg to New Carthage. Each ship also towed a coal barge. There was some damage, but all repaired in a half hour.
APRIL 17TH
CSS Florida, Lt. Maffitt, captured and destroyed ship Commonwealth off coast of Brazil (so there were two Confederate commerce raiders off Brazil at this time.
APRIL 18TH
Boat expedition to reconnoiter Sabine City, Texas, surprised at the lighthouse and driven off.
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