APRIL 4TH, 1865:  A naval battery of three 30-pounder Parrott rifles, seaman and commanded by Lt.Cmdr. Gillis, the former commander of the torpedoed monitor USS Milwaukee, was landed on the banks of the Blakely River to join in the bombardment of Spanish Fort, the Confederate stronghold point in the defense of Mobile.

General Canby reported that the "battery behaved admirably."

--Old B-R'er