This operation at Fernandina placed the entire Georgia coast actually in possession or under the control of the Union Navy.
Du Pont wrote Senator Grimes three days later that: "The victory was bloodless, but most complete in results."
Du Pont also noted that: "The most curious feature of the operations was the chase of a train of cars by a gunboat for a mile and a half -- two soldiers were killed, the passengers rushed out in the woods...."
The expedition was a prime example of sea-land mobility of what General Robert E. Lee meant when he said: "Against ordinary numbers we are pretty strong, but against the hosts our enemies seem able to bring everywhere, there is no calculating."
--Old B-R'er
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