JULY 24TH
Rear Admiral Dahlgren's ironclads (New Ironsides, Weehawken, Patapsco, Montauk, Catskill and Nantucket) and gunboats attack Fort Wagner again in support of Army operatins ashore at Morris Island. Dahlgren noted the attack was a success and the fort's guns silenced and garrison driven to shelter.
Because of the French occupation of Mexico City six weeks earlier and general hostile attitude of France toward the United States, General Banks at New Orleans is ordered to prepare an expedition to Texas. Welles had been favoring this for sometime to halt all the blockade-running going on there.
Dahlgren wrote Welles about "how much I am pushed to conduct operations on Morris Island, maintain the blockade, to cover the (other) points which have been exposed by the withdrawal of troops...."
Along with Charleston and blockade in general, he also had to watch Wassaw Sound and Port Royal (which Confederates wanted to retake).
More Happening Today. --Old B-Runner
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