DECEMBER 5TH, 1861: Flag Officer Du Pont regarding expedition to Wassaw Sound, Georgia, and plans for the use of the "stone fleet", wrote: "Ottawa, Pembina, and Seneca penetrated into Wassaw ... the 'stone fleet' are all at Savannah, and I hardly know what to do with them --- for with Wassaw that city is more effectively closed than a bottle with wire over the cork ....
"I am sending to [Captain James I.] Lardner to know if he can plant them on the Charleston bar ... One good thing they [the 'stone fleet's appearance at Savannah] did, I have not a doubt they were taken for men-of-war, and led to giving up the Wassaw defenses...."
Scare Me Once. --Old B-Runner
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