Some More Information on Thomas C. Dunn

From the January 21, 1865, Army Navy Journal

Acting Masters promoted to Acting Volunteer Lieutenants:  On of them was Thomas C. Dunn. 

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There is also a booklet in Google Books called "Answer to Thomas C. Dunn" by James  B. Campbell that is five pages long and printed in 1875.  Is this out Thomas C. Dunn?

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In connection (maybe) with the above fact, there was a James B. Campbell who in 187? was seeking a suit against John Fraser & Co., the noted blockade running outfit during the war.  It was 243 pages long.

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The September 30, 1863, U.S. Navy Department has a list of acting masters and their stations.  There was a Thomas C, Dunn on the steamboat USS Kanawha.

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The Annual Report of the Ohio Dairy and Food Commission in 1892 had six cases tried before Thomas C. Dunn.

Was This Him?  --Old B-Runner

April 10, 1862: Capturing Blockade-Runners

APRIL 10TH, 1862:  Gunboat USS Kanawha, Lt. John C. Febiger, captured blockade-running schooners Southern Independence, Victoria, Charlotte and Cuba off Mobile.

**  USS Whitehead, Acting Master Charles A. French, captured schooners Comet, J.J. Crittenden and sloop America in Newbegun Creek, North Carolina.  The sloop America was evidently not the yacht America of America's Cup fame.

**  USS Keystone State, Commander LeRoy, chased blockade-runner Liverpool, which ran aground outside North Inlet, S.C., and was destroyed by her crew.

--Old B-Runner

Action in Texas

DECEMBER 27TH, 1864:  Shortly after midnight a boat crew from the USS Virginia cut out the schooner Belle in Galveston Harbor, loaded with cotton.  Belle was at anchor only some 400 yards from the Confederate guard boat Lecompte when the Union sailors boldly boarded it and sailed her out of the harbor.

DECEMBER 28TH, 1864:  The USS Kanawha forced an unidentified blockade running sloop ashore near Caney Creek, Texas, and destroyed her.

--Old B-R'er

Blockade of Brownsville, Texas, Reinstituted

SEPTEMBER 9TH, 1864:  Rear Admiral Farragut ordered the USS Kanawha to reinstitute the blockade of Brownsville, Texas.  It had been lifted in mid-February by Presidential proclamation, but on 15 August, Secretary of State Seward had informed Secretary Welles once more because of withdrawal of Union forces in the area.  Three days later, Welles directed Farragut to resume it.

On September 3rd, Farragut reported to Welles that he was "increasing the blockading force off the coast of Texas, the recent operations here (Battle of Mobile Bay) enabling me to spare vessels for that purpose."

The Kanawha blockaded the Brazos Santiago, one of the approaches to Brownsville.  The USS Aroostook was sent to blockade the Rio grande River.

--Old B-Runner

150 Years Ago-- November 24-29, 1863: Ordnance and Another B-R Gets captured

NOVEMBER 24TH:

 The USS Pawnee and Marblehead protected Union troops sinking piles of obstructions in the Stono River above Legareville, SC.

NOVEMBER 25TH:

The Confederate Navy faced all sorts of problems during the war and one was getting ordnance. Secretary Mallory wrote this day that ordnance workshops had been established at Charlotte, Richmond, Atlanta and Selma, Alabama.

NOVEMBER 26TH:

The USS James Adger seized the British blockade-runner Ella off Masonboro Inlet, NC, with a cargo of salt.

NOVEMBER 28th:

The USS Chipewa escorted two army transports on a recon mission up Skull Creek, SC.

NOVEMBER 29TH:

USS Kanawha captured schooner Albert attempting to run out of Mobile with cargo of cotton, rosin, turpentine and tobacco.

**  Major General Banks got a gun crew from the USS Monongahela ashore to man howitzers to support his attack on Pass Cavallo, Texas.

--Old B-Runner