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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)
The Gulf squadrons. The command of the Gulf Blockading Squadron was assigned to Flag-Officer William Mervine, who had served in California during the Mexican war, and who had now been fifty-two ained on blockade duty. Galveston was invested by the South Carolina, on the 2d of July. When Mervine arrived at his post on the 8th of June, in the frigate Mississippi, he found a beginning already made, and by July he had a force of twenty-one vessels. Mervine's first act after his arrival on the station was to publish a proclamation declaring, in the usual form, that an effective blockadnder certain restrictions. A cruise made by H. M. S. Jason, Captain Von Donop, shortly after Mervine's arrival, showed the following disposition of the forces in the Gulf: the Cuyler was off Tampaof the forts to Admiral Farragut and General Granger. In the latter part of September, 1861, Mervine was relieved by Flag-Officer William W. McKean. It was decided that a division of the squadron
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)
ds 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; passes of the Mississippi, 127; entrance to Mobile Bay, 133; Galveston Harbor and entrance, 145 Marston, Captain, John, 60, 67 Mason, Confederate commissioner, seized, 177 et seq. Massachusetts, the, at Key West, 35, 121, 132
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