DECEMBER 24TH, 1861: The USS Gem of the Sea, Lt. Irvin B. Baxter, captured and destroyed the British blockade runner Prince of Wales off Georgetown, South Carolina.
** Confederate Secretary of Navy Mallory wrote Major General Leonidas Polk, commanding troops at Columbus, Kentucky, requesting furlough of troops to assist in construction of ironclad gunboats at Memphis.
Mallory commented: "One of them at Columbus would have enabled you to complete the annihilation of the enemy."
--Old B-Runner
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