JULY 27-30TH, 1864: Boat crew commanded by Lt. J.C. Watson made daylight reconnaissances of the Mobile Bay channel.. Watson and his men were towed into the bay by the small tug Cowslip, sounded the outer channel and marked the outside limits of the Confederate torpedo fields with buoys for the coming attack, now just a week away.
This would have had to be a highly dangerous operation as I'm sure the Confederates wouldn't particularly like what they were doing.
--Old B-Runner
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