USS Montgomery-- Part 2: Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean

**  OCTOBER 8, 1862

Steamer Blanche, anchored off Havana, was set afire to prevent seizure by the US Montgomery, Commander C. Hunter.  (This became somewhat of an international incident.)

**  OCTOBER 28, 1862

USS Montgomery, Commander C. Hunter, captured blockade running steamer Caroline near Pensacola.

**  NOVEMBER 20, 1862

USS Montgomery, Commander C. Hunter, captured sloop William E. Chester near Pensacola Bay.

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**JANUARY 3, 1864

USS Fahkee, with Rear Admiral Samuel P. Lee embarked, sighted steamer Bendigo aground at Lockwood's Folly Inlet, North Carolina.  Three boat crews were sent to investigate; after it was discovered that the blockade runner had been partially burned to prevent capture and that there was seven feet of water in the hold, Lee ordered the Bendigo destroyed by gunfire from the USS Fort Jackson, Iron Age, Montgomery, Daylight and Fahkee.

--Old B-Runner