JULY 9TH, 1864
CSS Florida captured and burned bark Greenland with cargo of coal and schooner Margaret Y. Davis at sea off Cape Henry, Virginia.
USS Gettysburg captured steamer Little Ada with pig iron and potash at sea off Cape Romain, SC after a lengthy chase.
JULY 10TH, 1864:
USS Roebuck captured Terrapin at Jupiter Inlet, Florida, with cargo of cotton and turpentine.
USS Monongahela, Lackawanna, Galena, and Sebago, open fire on steamer Virgin, describes as a very large blockade-runner aground near Fort Morgan, at Mobile Bay, Alabama.
Under cover of the guns of Fort Morgan, a river steamer attempted to tow the Virgin off, but was forced to withdraw by the shelling of the Union blockaders. The next day, however, the Confederates towed the Virgin back into Mobile Bay.
--Old B-Runner
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