MAY 12TH
Union expedition on Tennessee River to destroy any vessel that might be of use to Confederates and engaged enemy detachments.
USS Conemaugh and USS Monticello bombarded five schooners aground at Murrell's Onlet, SC. In less than an hour, had set 100 bales of cotton on the beach afire, one of the schooners afire and damaged the others.
MAY 13TH
The consistent Army-Navy operations against Viclsburg caused troops from the east to be transferred there, leaving Charleston undermanned.
CSS Florida captured and burned Crown Point off Brazil.
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