SEPTEMBER 19TH, 1863 A Confederate Navy small boat expedition under Acting Masters John Y. Beall and Edward McGuire captures the schooner Alliance loaded with sutler stores in the Chesapeake Bay. Two days later they captured another schooner and the next night, the 22nd, captured another two schooners.
All but the Alliance were cast adrift at Wachapreague Inlet.
The Confederates next tried to run the blockade in the Alliance, but ran aground and was burned on the morning of 23 September after the USS Thomas Freeborn opened fire on her.
A combined Union Army-Navy effort failed to stop Beall and his men who later destroyed several lighthouses on Maryland's eastern shore before being captured 15 November 1863.
Sounds Like We Have Another Read. --Old B-Runner
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