SEPTEMBER 26TH, 1864: Major General Whiting, CSA, Confederate commander at Wilmington, wrote North Carolina Governor Vance that the CSS Tallahassee and Chickamauga be retained at Wilmington for the defense of that port: "The Confederate steamers Tallahassee and Chickamauga are now nearly ready for sea, and will leave this port for the purpose of operating against the enemy's commerce.
"Should they leave on this service the few vessels they might destroy would be of little advantage to our cause, while it will incite the enemy to increase the number of the blockading squadron to such an extent as to render it almost impossible for vessels running the blockade to escape them."
Notwithstanding these objections, this one and the one two days earlier from Lee, the raiders went out to sea.
Trying to Get All the Support They Can. --Old B-Runner
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