JUNE 10TH
General Banks, besieging Port Hudson asks for more ammunition.
Admiral Du Pont orders the monitor USS Weehawken to Wassaw Sound, Georgia, where it was reported that the ironclad CSS Atlanta was preparing to attack the USS Cimarron, a wooden ship.
Confederate officers being transported as prisoners to Fort Delaware on the steamer Maple Leaf overpowered the guard, took possession of the vessel, and landed below Cape Henry, Virginia.
JUNE 11TH
Farragut writes to General Banks besieging Port Hudson that he is down to his last 500 shells and may have to cut the bombardment back to three or four hours each night and at intervals of every five minutes.
Steamer Havelock ran by the Union blockaders at Charleston but was so battered it ran aground on Folly Inlet and burned.
USS Florida captured blockade-runner steamer Calypso running into Wilmington with cargo including
drugs, provisions and ironclad plating.
Old B-R-er
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