OCTOBER 26, 1864: The USS Adolph Hugel, Acting Master Sylvanus Nickerson, captured schooner Coquette with cargo including tobacco and wheat at Wade's Bay on the eastern shore of the Potomac River. Two days later sloop James Landry was also seized by the Hugel for violation of the blockade regulations.
Nickerson took sloop Zion as prize on November 2, as the Potomac Flotilla alertly continued its ceaseless efforts to stifle even the smallest trickle of goods flowing from Southern sympathizers in Union dominated areas to the beleaguered Confederate forces in Virginia.
--Old B-Runner
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