SEPTEMBER 10TH, 1864: The USS Magnolia seized the steamer Matagorda at sea off Cape San Antonio, Cuba, with cargo of cotton.
SEPTEMBER 11TH, 1864: Acting Lt. Wiggin led an expedition including the tinclad USS Rodolph and wooden side-wheeler USS Stockdale, up the Fish River at Mobile Bay to seize an engine used by Confederates in a sawmill and to assist Union troops in obtaining lumber.
They convoyed the Army transport Planter to Smith's Mill, where they took the engine, 60,000 feet of limber and some livestock. Loading the lumber on board a barge for the Planter to tow took almost until nightfall, and in the dusk of the downstream return, Confederate riflemen opened fire on the ships and felled trees ahead of them.
The ships returned the fire and the Rodolph broke through the obstructions, enabling the remaining ships to pass downriver.
Wiggins had also been destroying large salt works near Mobile Bay on the 8th.
Also, on the 11th: USS Augusta Dinsmore captured schooner John off Velasco, texas, with cargo of cotton.
--Old B-Runner
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