In April 1864, a Confederate battery opened fire on the Juliet, killing 15 men and the ship was badly damaged and temporarily out of action.. Samuel H. Dalton was later transferred to the USS Hastings where he served until his discharge at Cairo in December 1864.
After the war, in 1887, Dalton bought property in Murphysboro from Mary Logan, executor of her husband's estate. John A Logan was a racist at one point and had even fathered Illinois' severe Black Codes which prohibited blacks from living in the state. Evidently he had changed his mind for his widow to have sold property to Dalton as she would never have gone against her late husband's wishes.
--Old B-R'er
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