150 Years Ago: August 26th to 28th, 1863: CSS Alabama and CSS Tuscaloosa Rendezvous

AUGUST 26TH:

Welles wants weekly reports and sketches of damages done to the monitors at Charleston.

Boat crew from the USS Beauregard, a former Confederate privateer, seized schooner Phoebe off Jupiter Inlet, Florida.

AUGUST 27TH:

USS Preble destroyed by accidental fire at Pensacola, Florida. Wikipedia has the ship being burned on April 27, 1863.

AUGUST 28TH:

CSS Alabama and CSS Tuscaloosa meet briefly off African coast.

**  Lt. George Gift, CSN, visited the ironclads CSS Tennessee and CSS Nashville building above Mobile and is quite impressed.

--Old B-R'er