JUNE 15TH, 1862: The USS Tahoma, Lt. John C. Howell, and USS Somerset, Lt. English, crossed the bar of St. Marks River, Florida, and shelled the Confederate fort near the lighthouse for forty minutes.
The Confederate artillery company stationed there withdrew and the sailors landed and destroyed the battery and the buildings used as barracks.
** The USS Corwin, Lt. T.S. Phelps, captured schooner Starlight at Potopotank, Virginia.
--Old B-Runner
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