JULY 23RD, 1864: Army transport B.M. Runyan, with some 500 military and civilian passengers, sank in the Mississippi River near Skipworth's Landing, Mississippi, after hitting a snag. USS Prairie Bird rescued 350 survivors and salvaged part of the cargo.
JULY 24TH, 1864: Confederate guerrillas captured and burned steamer Kingston, which had run aground the preceding day between Smith's Point and Windmill Point on the Virginia shore of the Chesapeake Bay.
--Old B-R'er
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