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as appointed to succeed him. The Eastern Gulf Squadron extended from Cape Canaveral on the eastern coast of Florida, to Pensacola. Its headquarters were at Key West. McKean remained in command until June 4, 1862, when he was relieved by Captain Lardner. Lardner was soon followed by Commodore Theodorus Bailey, who retained the command two years, and whose health finally broke down, as did that of many of his officers, upon this undesirable station. After a short interval, Commodore CornelLardner was soon followed by Commodore Theodorus Bailey, who retained the command two years, and whose health finally broke down, as did that of many of his officers, upon this undesirable station. After a short interval, Commodore Cornelius K. Stribling assumed the command on the 12th of October, and retained it until the close of the war. The blockade of Florida required a different management from that of other parts of the coast. There were no large commercial centres which might influence the destination of steamers with valuable cargoes; nor were there any points whose position, by giving ready access to the interior, made it indispensable that they should be strongly intrenched. Hence the main force of the blockade
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 7: (search)
and the Cuyler, which had been sent in pursuit of the Florida after her escape from Mobile, were among the vessels appropriated in this way; and Farragut was led to express himself strongly on the subject, and to suggest that if any of Wilkes's ships came into his neighborhood, he should adopt a similar line of action. But the fatal mistake made by Wilkes was in detaining the Vanderbilt; and in consequence of this and other causes of dissatisfaction, he was relieved in June, 1863, by Commodore Lardner. After the Alabama had reached the West Indies, in November, 1862, it was foreseen that she could not remain long in that quarter; and the Vanderbilt, one of the fastest steamers in the navy, was fitted out to cruise under Commander Baldwin, with a roving commission, in the direction it was supposed she would take. The orders of the Department to Baldwin, dated January 27, 1863, when the Alabama was on her way to her cruising ground near the equator, show with what remarkable fores
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)
the, 111 Huntsville, the, 122, 136 ironclads at the outbreak of the war, 2 Iroquois, the, 11; chases Sumter, 175 Isherwood, B. F., Engineer-in-Chief, 49 Jamestown, the, 64, 66, 77 Jones, Lieutenant, Catesby, commands Merrimac, 68 Kearsarge, the, 205; armament of, 206; fights Alabama, 207 et seq. Keystone State, blockades Norfolk, 35; attacked by rams, 110 Key West, blockaded, 35, 83 Kittredge, Acting--Lieutenant, commands expedition to Corpus Christi, 142 Lardner, Captain, 123 Lee, Acting Rear-Admiral, commands South Atlantic Squadron, 90 Lee, R. E., the, 156 McCauley, Commodore, 49, 51; destroys vessels at Hampton Roads, 51 et seq. McKean, Flag Officer, Wm. W., relieves Commodore Mervine, 123 Maffitt, Captain, 137 et seq.; commands the Florida, 184 Mallory, Confederate Secretary of Navy, 22 Manassas, the, 129 Maps, the Blockaded Coast, 36; Hampton Roads, 50; entrances to Cape Fear River, 92; entrances to Charleston Harbor, 106; pas