JULY 11TH, 1864: Landing party from USS James L. Davis destroyed Confederate salt works near Tampa, Florida. The works were capable of producing 150 bushels of salt a day. On 16 July, a similar raid near Tampa was carried out in which a salt work consisting of four boilers was destroyed.
JULY 12TH, 1864: USS Whitehead and Ceres, in company with transport steamer Ella May, conducted a joint expedition up the Scuppernong River to Columbia, NC.
The Whitehead, a small tinclad, and Ceres, a 140-ton paddle-wheeler, landed troops near Columbia, and the soldiers succeeded in destroying a bridge and a quantity of grain.
USS Penobscot captured the schooner James Williams off Galveston with cargo including medicines, coffee and liquor.
--Old B-Runner
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