DECEMBER 7TH:
Asst, Sec. of Navy Fox sent a list of ships running the blockade to Rear Admiral Lee saying: "While captures are numerous, it is not the less evident that there are as many that escape capture."
DECEMBER 8TH:
The USS Brazileria found the blockade-runner Antoinette run aground at Cumberland Island, Georgia, and a total wreck
** The disabled merchant ship Henry Van Phul shelled by a Confederate battery near Morganza, Louisiana, but were driven off by two Union warships. Merchant ships operating along the rivers were ok as long as escorted by Navy ships.
DECEMBER 9TH:
In his annual message to Congress, President Lincoln noted that the blockade was increasing in efficiency, but "illicit trade is not entirely suppressed."
--Old B-Runner
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