OCTOBER 12TH, 1861: The Confederate ship Theodora ran the blockade at Charleston with Mason and Slidell, Commissioners to England and France respectively, on board.
** Confederate privateer Sallie captured American brig Granada in the Atlantic Ocean
** USS Dale, Commander Edward M. Yard, captured schooner Specie east of Jacksonville, bound for Havana with a large cargo of rice.
** Warning was given that Confederates had lined the James River with powerful submarine batteries (mines).
--Old B-R'er
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