SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1861: President Lincoln received the news of the Flag Officer Stringham's Hatteras Inlet victory late at night from Secretary of the Navy Welles. It was the initial joint Army-Navy operation of the wart, the first of many.
Coming shortly after the defeat at Bull Run, it electrified the North and greatly raised morale.
** USS Dana, Acting Master's Mate Ely, captured blockade running schooner T.J. Evans off Clay Island, Md., with a cargo including blankets, surgical instruments and ordnance supplies.
--Old B-Runner
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