FEBRUARY 14TH, 1862: An armed boat from the USS Restless, Acting Lt. Edward Conroy, captured and destroyed sloop Edisto and schooners Wandoo, Elizabeth and Theodore Stoney off Bull's Bay, South Carolina. All the ships carried heavy cargoes of rice for Charleston.
** Confederate ships sank obstructions in the Cape Fear River near Fort Caswell, North Carolina, in an effort to block the channel.
** The USS Galena, an experimental sea-going ironclad, was launched at Mystic, Connecticut.
--Old B-Runner
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