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James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: (search)
t point on the coast. From this base, further operations checked the desultory commerce carried on by small vessels in the Louisiana bayous. The occupation of Ship Island covered the waters of Mississippi Sound, where a small coasting trade with Mobile was, nevertheless, persistently carried on. At Pensacola, Fort Pickens commana. A new disposition was made of the vessels, and the blockade was continued by keeping a ship off the mouth of each of the Passes. On the 16th of September Ship Island had been evacuated by the Confederates. A force was landed from the Massachusetts, and the fort was occupied. The island became an important station, and facig range. A 68-pounder rifle-shell was exploded in the Massachusetts, but it did not seriously injure the vessel, and the enemy finally retreated out of reach. Ship Island served as the depot of the West Gulf Squadron until the evacuation of Pensacola, which then became the headquarters. Mobile, the second point of importance i
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Index. (search)
r, John, 117 et seq. Rowan, Commander, 91 Sabine River, its importance to blockade-runners, 142 et seq. St. Lawrence, the, 62, 66 et seq., 89, 172 St Louis, the, 122 San Jacinto, the, 177, 194 Sassacus, the, 99 Savannah, Ga., blockaded, 35, 85, 87 et seq., 107, 109 Selfridge, Lieutenant, 51 Semmes, Captain, commands the Sumter, 173 et seq.; commands the Alabama, 192 et seq., 209 et seq., 222 et seq. Shenandoah, the, bought, 218; cruise of, 219 et seq., 220 Ship Island, 132 Smith, Captain, Melancton, 99 Smith, Lieutenant Joseph B., 61 South Carolina, the, at Pensacola, 35; at Galveston, 35, 140 Southfield, the, sunk, 93 Steamers, disposition at commencement of war, 14; purchases of, 17 et seq., 20 et seq. Stonewall, the, 221 Stripling, Commodore Cornelius K., 123 Stringham, Commodore, appointed to command of Atlantic squadron, 82, 83 et seq., 90 Sumter, the, 172 et seq.; sold 176; damage done by, 176 Tahoma, the, 124 et seq.