JULY 14TH
A Naval force captures Confederate Fort Powhatan on the James River below Richmond, the last Confederate defense below Chaffin's and Drewry's Bluff.
J.B. Jones, Clerk in the Confederate War Department writes that General Beauregard would like for someone skilled with torpedoes be sent to Charleston, but Mallory replied that with enemy warships in the James River so close to Richmond, he can't sent the man.
JULY 15TH
Farragut wrote Porter that the Mississippi River was his as far as New Orleans. He then plans to take a short leave before returning in the fall for operations against Galveston and/or Mobile.
Old B-R'er
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