From Civil War Shipwrecks.
An unknown Confederate schooner was set afire below the Coffee Bluff Confederate battery in the Little Ogeechee River on November 7, 1862, as the USS Wissahickon and USS Dawn approached.
From Civil War Naval Chronology.
NOVEMBER 19, 1862
The USS Wissahicon, Lieutenant Commander John L. Davis, and USS Dawn, Acting Lieutenant John S. Barnes, engaged Fort McAllister, Georgia, on the Ogeechee River. The Wissahickon was hit and temporarily disabled in the exchange of fire.
Persistent and vigilant actions of this nature by the Union navy, pinned down Confederate manpower that could have been used in land actions elsewhere.
The Wissahickon and Dawn at the time had the mission of blockading the CSS Nashville in Ossabow Sound, Georgia, and preventing her from becoming another commerce raider like the CSS Alabama.
--Old B-Runner
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