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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the naval war. (search)
possession of Jacksonville in the midst of a perfectly indifferent population. Finally, by the occupation of the Mosquito Inlet passes, Dupont completed the work of closing the Confederate coast to the contraband trade which had been carried on with the English colony of the Bahamas. He proceeded in person to those passes with several ships; but a detachment of Federal sailors, having penetrated too far into the interior with some launches, fell into an ambuscade on its return, on the 22d of March, in which the commanders of the two vessels who had organized this imprudent expedition perished. Shortly after this a fatal occurrence took place which, without diminishing in the least the efficacy of the blockade, tended to cool the sympathies which the sight of the old national flag was still able to rouse along this coast. After four weeks of occupation, Jacksonville was evacuated on the 8th of April. The seizure of this town was a mistake. The mission of General Sherman's troo