FEBRUARY 28TH, 1865: Lt. George W. Gift, CSN, on sick leave at his wife's home in Georgia, reflected on the fate of the South: "It is all too disheartening! The press brings accounts of new defeat for us. The Water Witch has been captured and destroyed. Mobile has fallen, so that all the ports in the Confederacy are lost! That goes for the Navy...."
ALSO ON FEBRUARY 28TH, 1865: Armed boats from the USS Honeysuckle forced the blockade running British schooner Sort aground on a reef near the mouth of Crystal River, Florida, where she was abandoned. The Sort had previously been captured in December 1864 by the USS O.H. Lee.
--Old B-R'er
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