AUGUST 3RD, 1864: Rear Admiral Farragut's Fleet Captain, Percival Drayton, wrote the senior officer at Pensacola, Florida, Captain Thornton A. Jenkins, urging that the monitor Tecumseh be hurried to Mobile Bay for Farragut's attack.
"If you can get the Tecumseh out to-morrow, do so, otherwise I am pretty certain the admiral won't wait for her. Indeed, I think a very little persuasion would have taken him in to-day, and less to-morrow. The army are to land at once, and the admiral does not want to be thought remiss."
Farragut was ready to launch his attack and the soldiers were already getting ready to land to begin siege operations against Fort Morgan.
Farragut also wrote Jenkins saying: "I can lose no more days. I must go in day after to-morrow morning at daylight or a little after. It is a bad time, but when you do not take fortune at her offer you must take her as you find her."
The Much Anticipated Attack Is Getting Near. --Old B-Runner
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