JULY 16TH
USS Pawnee and Marblehead provide covering fire during Confederate attack on Union positions on James Ilsand, SC. The Pawnee is struck 40 times. The Union position was commanded by Union General Alfred H. Terry, later the Union commander in the second Battle of Fort Fisher. He reported that the ships greatly helped in his defense.
Porter wrote Farragut that the Confederates planned to operate flying batteries up and down the Mississippi to attack shipping. "We shall be kept busy chasing them up."
The merchant steamer Imperial arrived in New Orleans from St. Louis which she left on July 8th without incident. The Mississippi River was indeed open again for the Union.
Expedition from the USS Port Royal captured cotton ready to be run through the blockade at Appalachicola, Florida.
CSS Georgia captured the ship Prince of Wales in the mid-South Atlantic.
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