JULY 1ST
Major General Rosecrans asked for gunboats for operations on the Tennessee River to halt Confederate attempts to set up bases along it.
Commander Caldwell reported to Farragut that "From the 23 of May to the 26 of June, theer followed a succession of bombardments" at Port Hudson. From his ship, the USS Essex, he had fired 738 shells and the mortar ships another 2,800 XII-shells.
James M. Tindall wrote Cpnfederate Secretary of State Judah P. benamin concerning the capture of the Union's Pacific Mail Steamers operating on the Pacific coast.
J.B. Jones noted in his diary that President Davis had announced that the obstructions below Richmond in the James River would not be opened for the ironclad CSS Richmond until anotehr ironclad to accompany it was ready.
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