USS Montgomery-- Part 2: Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean

**  OCTOBER 8, 1862

Steamer Blanche, anchored off Havana, was set afire to prevent seizure by the US Montgomery, Commander C. Hunter.  (This became somewhat of an international incident.)

**  OCTOBER 28, 1862

USS Montgomery, Commander C. Hunter, captured blockade running steamer Caroline near Pensacola.

**  NOVEMBER 20, 1862

USS Montgomery, Commander C. Hunter, captured sloop William E. Chester near Pensacola Bay.

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**JANUARY 3, 1864

USS Fahkee, with Rear Admiral Samuel P. Lee embarked, sighted steamer Bendigo aground at Lockwood's Folly Inlet, North Carolina.  Three boat crews were sent to investigate; after it was discovered that the blockade runner had been partially burned to prevent capture and that there was seven feet of water in the hold, Lee ordered the Bendigo destroyed by gunfire from the USS Fort Jackson, Iron Age, Montgomery, Daylight and Fahkee.

--Old B-Runner

 

USS Montgomery-- Part 1 Operations in the Gulf

From Civil War Naval Chronology.

DECEMBER 4, 1861

Confederate steamers Florida and Pamlico attacked USS Montgomery, Commander Thompson D. Shaw, off Horn Island Pass, Mississippi Sound. 

FEBRUARY 1, 1862

USS Montgomery. Lieutenant Jouett, captured schooner Isabel in the Gulf of Mexico.

**  APRIL 5, 1862

Launch from the USS Montgomery, Lieutenant Charles Hunter, captured and destroyed schooner Columbia near San Luis Pass, Texas, loaded with cotton.

**  JUNE 3, 1862

The USS Montgomery, Lieutenant C. Hunter, captured blockade running British schooner Will-O'-The-Wisp transferring powder and percussion caps to a lighter near the mouth of the Rio Grande River

--Old B-Runner