USS Rosalie-- Part 3: Capturing Runners and Army Operations

I started writing about this ship Monday and then got off subject, so here is the rest of the story.

By July 18, 1863, the Rosalie had added a sponging vessel and a small sloop to her lost of captures.  On 1 August she took the British schooner George after spotting her abandoned and without cargo hidden in the Caloosahatchee River.

On the 7th of August, the Rosalie took a small sailboat with three occupants and made them prisoners on suspicion of espionage.  On 30 December she captured another British schooner. and began patrolling Estero Bay as well.

Much of the rest of her career, the Rosalie supported Army operations along the west coast of Central Florida.Such missions primarily involved the transportation of scouts or the protection of refugees and seldom went far from Charlotte Harbor.

--Old B-Runner