Thursday, May 23, 2013

Naval Happenings 150 Years Ago: May 24th to 26th, 1863

MAY 24TH

Confederates firedon the commissary and quartermaster boat of the Marine Brigade above Austin, Mississippi.  Ellet's force went ashore and engaged them.

MAY 24TH TO 30TH

Union ships ascended the Yazoo River and burned four steamers and destroyed places along the river.


MAY 25TH

CSS Alabama burned ship Gildersleeve and bonded the Justice off Bahia, Brazil.


MAY 26TH

General Banks writes Farragut asking him to have his  "mortars destroy the enemy's rest at night" at Port Hudson.  They were.

Old B-R'er

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