MARCH 9TH
Confederate guerrilla activity along the Tennessee River.
USS Quaker City captured British blockade-runner Douro bound from Wilmington to Nassau with cargo of cotton,turpentine and tobacco.
MARCH 10TH
USS Chillicothe destroyed a large bridge, a sawmill and boat on Tallahatchie River. Earlier the Confederate ship Thirty-fifth Parallel had been destroyed too prevent its capture.
MARCH 11TH
The Yazoo Pass' first attack on Fort Pemberton, Mississippi commenced. Fort Pemberton was a cotton and earthwork mounting a heavy Whitworth rifle, four other cannons and several field pieces The Chillicothe damaged by two shots. The difficulty was bringing the guns of more than one ship at a time to bear on the fort because of the wreck of the CSS St. Philip (formerly the USS Star of the West).
Reports from Charleston that 30 steamers had run the blockade at that port. That was the most shipping-ever, even before the war.
Old B-Runner
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