APRIL 26TH
USS Lexington joined the ram fleet under Brigadier General Alfred W. Ellet to engage and disperse Confederate cavalry at the mouth of the Duck River, Tennessee. There we go again, Navy ships under Army control along with the Ellet family.
CSS Alabama captured and burned the ship Dorcas Prince east of Natal, Brazil, with cargo of coal. Surprising Semmes wouldn't have turned it into a tender. Steamers were always needing coal.
USS De Soto captures another ship in Gulf of Mexico. (See April 24th)
APRIL 27TH
Admiral Porter issues general order for attack on Grand Gulf. Confederates have four places where guns are placed and he wants all four engaged at same time. The ironclad gunboats go in first, firing bow guns at first battery.
Boat crews from USS Monticello and Matthew Vassar boarded and destroyed British blockade-runner Golden Liner in Murrell's Inlet, SC.
USS Preble accidentally destroyed by fire while at anchor off Pensacola, Florida.
APRIL 28TH
US tug Lily, attempting to cross the bow of the USS Choctaw at anchor in the Yazoo River, was swept by current into Choctaw's ram and sunk.
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