JULY 7-12TH, 1864: Small schooners USS Ariel, Sea Bird and Stonewall and sloop Rosalie transported Union troops on a raid to Brookville, Florida.
After disembarking the soldiers, the Ariel and Sea Bird continued to Bayport where a landing party captured a quantity of cotton and burned the customs house.
The Union troops rejoined the two schooners at Bayport, and the force returned to Anclote Key the next day.
--Old B-R'er
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