AUGUST 28TH, 1861: Commander Dahlgren, Commandant of Washington Navy Yard, sent 400 seamen on steamboat Philadelphia to Alexandria, Virginia, to report to Brigadier General William B. Franklin for the defense of Fort Ellsworth.
The timely naval reinforcement strengthened the fort's defenses and consequently that of the nation's capital, Washington, D.C..
** The USS Yankee, Commander T.T. Craven, captured schooner Remittance near Piney Point, Virginia.
--Old B-Runner
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