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PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 10:26 pm 
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October 27, 1864 Thursday
The fighting front at Petersburg had been quiet for several weeks except for sniper fire by both sides. Now the Federals moved once more to the left, toward Boydton Plank Road and Hatcher’s Run to near Burgess’ Mill, about twelve miles west and south of Petersburg, aiming toward the South Side Railroad. Some 17,000 Federal troops were in the advance. At Burgess’ Mill (the engagement also known as Boydton Plank Road or Hatcher’s Run) the advance was halted by Confederate opposition, including Hampton’s cavalry and infantry under Heth and Mahone. Lack of cooperation between the Second and Fifth Union Corps under Hancock and Warren played a role as well. The Federal encircling force retired, and the Boydton Plank road and the South Side Railroad remained in Confederate hands for the winter. Union losses were 166 killed, 1028 wounded, and 564 missing for 1758. Confederate losses are uncertain ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_ ... Plank_Road ).

At the same time, north of the James River, the Federal Army of the James carried out a diversion with fighting at Fair Oaks and Darbytown Road. Skirmishing on the Petersburg front occurred at Fort Morton and Fort Sedgwick. Until February of 1865, the sieges of Petersburg and Richmond consisted mainly of building fortifications, occasional sniping, picketing, and patrolling. Some thirty-five miles of Confederate lines extended from the Williamsburg Road east of Richmond to Hatcher’s Run, well to the southwest of Petersburg. For most of the time Grant outnumbered Lee nearly two to one.

During the night, a steam launch with a torpedo on the end of a pole moved silently up the Roanoke River to Plymouth, North Carolina where lay the Confederate ironclad Albemarle. Union Naval Lieutenant William B. Cushing ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Cushing ) had planned the operation for some time. As the launch headed for the enemy the alarm sounded and firing commenced. The launch struck the log boom protecting Albemarle, smashed through, and exploded the torpedo against her hull. The crew of the launch plunged into the water; Albemarle sank ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Albemarle ). The twenty-one year old Cushing had pulled off one of the most daring adventures of the entire Civil War. He escaped injury or capture as did one other of the fifteen-man crew.

In other action Confederate guerrillas attacked the steamer Belle Saint Louis at Fort Randolph, Tennessee; and skirmishes erupted at Mossy Creek and Panther Springs, east Tennessee. Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, CSA, is appointed to Brigadier General.

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October 28, 1864 Friday
Gen Curtis caught up with the retreating and enfeebled column of Price south of Newtonia, Missouri. Blunt, with the two leading brigades, attacked Shelby. The Confederates held the upper hand until Federal reinforcements forced Shelby to withdraw ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Newtonia ). Curtis now felt he was in a position to decimate Price. However, on the morning of Oct 29, the troops of Curtis’ command belonging to Rosecrans’ Department of Missouri were ordered back to their stations. This left Curtis with only three small brigades. He protested to Halleck in Washington and received word that Grant wanted Price to be pursued. Curtis tried to reassemble his depleted troops, but intraservice wrangling caused delay until further effort to follow Price was out of the question.

Action in Alabama increased as Hood moved westward across the state, with skirmishing at Ladiga and Goshen. In East Tennessee there was action at Morristown and skirmishing at Russellville; in Virginia a skirmish at Newtown, and action around Snicker’s Gap. Indians engaged in depredations near Midway Station, Nebraska Territory. Gen Forrest moved north from Jackson, Tennessee and set up a trap for Federal shipping on the Tennessee River.

Sherman, at Gaylesville, Alabama learned that Hood had left Gadsden for Decatur, and decided to return to Atlanta where he could march toward the coast. Thomas at Nashville would have to handle Hood. Two major armies were now marching in opposite directions when it seemed that normally their aims should have been to destroy each other.

C.S.S. Chickamauga, commanded by Lieutenant John Wilkinson, sortied from Wilmington harbor, eluded the blockading vessels off the bar, and put to sea as a commerce raider.

U.S.S. Calypso, commanded by Acting Master Stuart, and U.S.S. Eolus, commanded by Acting Master Lundt, captured blockade running British steamer Lady Sterling at sea off Wilmington with cargo of cotton and tobacco.

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October 29, 1864 Saturday
Hood’s Army of Tennessee continued toward Courtland from Decatur, Alabama. A skirmish at Upshaw’s Farm, Barry County, Missouri brought to an end the pursuit of Price. Other fighting occurred at Johnson’s Farm, Virginia; Beverly, West Virginia; Warrenton, Missouri; Nonconnah Creek, Tennessee; and Confederates attacked Vanceburg, Kentucky. Brigadier General Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_E._G._Ransom ), USA, dies near Rome, Georgia, from complications developed from numerous wounds received during battles throughout his Civil War career.

C.S.S. Olustee, formerly C.S.S. Tallahassee, commanded by Lieutenant William H. Ward, eluded the blockaders off Wilmington. Ward returned to Wilmington on 7 November after a brief but successful cruise, having destroyed bark Empress Theresa, schooners A. J. Bird, E. F. Lewis, and Vapor, ship Arcole, and brig T. D. Wagner during the first three days of November.

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Advance elements of the Army of Tennessee reached Tuscumbia, Alabama. Confederates also occupied Florence, north of the Tennessee River. Skirmishing flared at nearby Muscle Shoals or Raccoon Ford. Meanwhile, Federals gathered in Tennessee to oppose Hood; the Fourth Corps headed from Chattanooga toward Pulaski, Tennessee where it was concentrated by Nov 3.

Hood expected Forrest’s command to join him, but that inspiring warrior had moved north from Jackson, Tennessee to the Tennessee River near Fort Heiman and Fort Henry. Arriving on the twenty-eighth, Forrest mounted artillery and on Oct 29 captured the boat Maseppa with a load which included 9000 pairs of shoes. On this day they badly damaged the gunboat Undine and captured it and two transports.

C.S.S. Shenandoah, commanded by Lieutenant Waddell, captured and scuttled bark Alina due south of the Azores and due west of Dakar. Alina, a new bark on her maiden voyage, was Shenandoah's first prize. She carried a cargo of railroad iron.

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Hood personally arrived at Tuscumbia, Alabama and reinforced his troops across the Tennessee River at Florence. There was minor skirmishing near Shoal Creek, Alabama. Hood now felt he had a base for the invasion of Tennessee and still hoped Sherman would follow him. On the Tennessee River to the north Forrest himself arrived near Fort Heiman, where his men had disrupted Federal river traffic. Forrest decided to organize a makeshift Confederate “navy” on the Tennessee River using the vessels he had captured. Union commander William H. Macomb with seven vessels took Plymouth, North Carolina on the Roanoke River, after a heavy duel with shore batteries.

Nevada entered the Union as the thirty-sixth state by proclamation of the President.

C.S.S. Chickamauga, commanded by Lieutenant Wilkinson, captured and burned off the northeast coast of the United States the ship Emma L. Hall, with cargo of sugar and molasses, and ship Shooting Star, with cargo of coal. Wilkinson transferred the passengers of Shooting Star to a passing vessel, Albion Lincoln, which headed directly for New York to spread the alarm. Wilkinson later wrote of the transfer of prisoners: "In truth, I was relieved from an awkward dilemma by the opportune capture of the Albion Lincoln for there was absolutely no place for a female aboard the Chickamauga. I do not doubt, however, that the redoubtable Mrs. Drinkwater [wife of Shooting Star's Master] would have accommodated herself to the circumstances by turning me out of my own cabin. Heavens! what a tongue she wielded! The young officers of the Chickamauga relieved each other in boat duty to and fro and she routed every one of them ignominiously."

U.S.S. Katahdin, commanded by Lieutenant Commander John Irwin, captured British blockade runner Albert Edward off Galveston with cargo of cotton.

U.S.S. Wilderness, commanded by Acting Master Henry Arey, and U.S.S. Niphon, commanded by Acting Master Kemble, seized blockade running British steamer Annie off New Inlet, North Carolina, with cargo of tobacco, cotton, and turpentine.

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November 1, 1864 Tuesday
November began with the election, rather than the war, commanding the most attention in the North. For the first time in history the armies of a major nation would vote during a war. Rampant electioneering involved not only politicians but army officers as well. President Lincoln was still anxious about the outcome, but the October state elections had given him more confidence. Gen McClellan remained popular among those discontented with the progress of the war, but the victories at Atlanta, in the Shenandoah Valley, on the coast, and in Missouri had undoubtedly quieted some opposition.

Southerners, of course, also followed the election campaign with interest. Some favored McClellan, as he might bring peace. Others favored Lincoln because at least they knew exactly where he stood. After all, McClellan might try to restore the Union. Many Southerners still did not want any part of the old nation.

Nathan Bedford Forrest headed south up the Tennessee River with his “navy” of two captured vessels. The boats, with the artillery dragging its guns through the mud on the banks alongside, moved toward Johnsonville, Tennessee. In Missouri action occurred at Rolla, on the Big Piney near Waynesville, near Lebanon, and at Greenton. Otherwise, skirmishes are recorded for Green Spring Run, West Virginia and Union Station, Tennessee. A six-day Federal scout moved from Bermuda Hundred into Charles City County, Virginia. Throughout the month Federals operated against guerrillas in central Arkansas. Meanwhile, two divisions of the Sixteenth Army Corps under A.J. Smith, detained in Missouri to help expel Price, finally headed toward Nashville to join Thomas’ command. Thomas Lafayette Rosser, CSA, is appointed to Major General and William Henry Fitzhugh Payne, CSA, to Brigadier General.

C.S.S. Chickamauga, commanded by Lieutenant Wilkinson, captured and scuttled off the northeast coast of the United States schooners Goodspeed in ballast and Otter Rock with cargo of potatoes.

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Venus, of Forrest’s makeshift naval-cavalry command operating along the Tennessee River, was driven ashore by two Federal gunboats six miles below Johnsonville, Tennessee. C.S.S. Undine was damaged but escaped. An affair took place at Hazen’s Farm near Devall’s Bluff, Arkansas. Sec of State William H. Seward told the mayor of New York of rumors from Canada that Confederate agents planned to set fire to the city on Election Day.

C.S.S. Chickamauga, commanded by Lieutenant Wilkinson, captured bark Speedwell off the New Jersey coast and bonded her for $18,000.

U.S.S. Santiago de Cuba, commanded by Captain Glisson, captured blockade running steamer Lucy at sea east of Charleston with cargo of cotton and tobacco.

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The Confederate gunboat Undine, captured by Forrest’s men, challenged three Federal gunboats at Johnsonville, Tennessee on the Tennessee River, but the three would not fight. Otherwise the day was unusually quiet with only a skirmish at Vera Cruz, Missouri. The Federal Fourth Corps arrived at Pulaski, Tennessee south of Nashville, to defend against a possible thrust by Hood. Other troops were on the way. President Lincoln approves location of the first 100 miles of Union Pacific Railroad west from Omaha, Nebraska Territory.

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November 4, 1864 Friday
“… that devil Forrest was down about Johnsonville and was making havoc among the gun-boats and transports,” wrote Gen Sherman when he heard of Forrest on the Tennessee River. Paddle-wheelers U.S.S. Key West, commanded by Acting Lieutenant King, U.S.S. Tawah, commanded by Acting Lieutenant Goudy, and small steamer U.S.S. Elfin, commanded by Acting Master Augustus F. Thompson, were destroyed after an engagement with Confederate batteries off Johnsonville, Tennessee, along with several transport steamers and a large quantity of supplies. Acting Lieutenant King, in command of the naval group, was patrolling the river and protecting the Union depot and headquarters at Johnsonville as the forces of Confederate General Forrest suddenly struck the city. On 3 November, King discovered a strong Confederate field battery emplaced to command a narrow channel in the Tennessee River between Reynoldsburg Island and the west bank two miles below Johnsonville. Confederate gunboat Undine, lately captured from the Union, twice attempted on the 3rd to lure King and his gunboats downriver in range of the batteries without success. On the morning of 4 November, Undine again came upriver from the Confederate batteries, and this time King took his three ships down to engage her. At about the same time, Lieutenant Commander Fitch, commanding U.S.S. Moose and five other small steamers, Brilliant, Victory, Curlew, Fairy, and Paw Paw, approached the downstream side of Reynoldsburg Island, to support King. The Confederates burned Undine and opened on the Union gunboats with shore fire. Because of the narrowness of the channel and the commanding position occupied by the batteries, Fitch could not bring his ships closer to Johnsonville to aid Key West, Tawah, and Elfin, which had retired to a position off the town to protect the transports and supplies. The Confederates then moved their main batteries along the river to positions opposite Johnsonville, leaving sufficient guns to block Fitch's passage, and commenced a fierce bombardment of the gunboats, transports, and wharf area. After fighting for nearly an hour against great odds, King at last ordered his three riddled gunboats fired. Army Assistant Quartermaster Henry Howland, a witness to the action from ashore, described it: ". . . for nearly thirty minutes the cannonading was the most terrific I have ever witnessed. The gunboats fought magnificiently and continued firing for more than twenty minutes after they were all disabled, when Lieutenant Commander King was compelled to order them abandoned and burned." King and most of his men escaped to the waterfront, which by this time was itself a roaring inferno as Union officers put the torch to supplies on the wharves to prevent them from falling into Southern hands. The gunboats and transports were lost, but General Forrest was prevented from capturing them intact, and was thus unable to cross the river in force and capture Johnsonville. Instead, the Confederate commander, anxious to press his advantage, moved his batteries downstream to cut off Fitch and the gunboats below Reynoldsburg Island. Fitch, nevertheless, succeeded in withdrawing his forces safely. Confederates estimated the damage at $6,700,000. The Southerners did have to abandon their captured gunboat Undine, but they disrupted Thomas’ supply line and diverted forces he needed at Nashville. Union officers at Johnsonville were censured for negligence. On Nov 5 Forrest pulled away, unscathed, and headed south toward Hood by way of Corinth, Mississippi.

Maj Gen John C Breckinridge led a “miscellaneous force” from southwest Virginia into east Tennessee until Nov 17. He drove the Federals back to Strawberry Plains, Tennessee before he withdrew. William MacRae, CSA, and Peter Burwell Starke, CSA, are appointed to Brigadier General.

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Minor skirmishes broke out in front of Forts Haskell and Morton, Virginia; Bloomfield and Big Pigeon River, Kentucky; Shoal Creek, Alabama; and Charleston, Missouri. A Union expedition from Rolla to Licking in Texas County, Missouri lasted until the ninth; and operations against Indians in Colorado Territory continued until the eleventh. Federals on an expedition from Springfield, Missouri to Fort Smith, Arkansas fought several skirmishes before the expedition ended Nov 16. Nov 5-23 a Federal expedition moved from Lewisburg to Fort Smith, Arkansas. A week of Confederate operations in the Kanawha Valley, West Virginia included the capture of two U.S. steamers on the Big Sandy River.

W. G. Fargo, Mayor of Buffalo, New York, telegraphed Secretary Welles that ship Georgian had been purchased in Toronto by a Southern sympathizer, Dr. James Bates: "My information is that she will be armed on the Canada shore for the purpose of encountering the U.S.S. Michigan and for piratical and predatory purposes on the Lakes. . . ." Though Commander Carter, U.S.S. Michigan, discounted the rumors, Georgian continued to arouse grave concern in the Great Lakes area. To be commanded by Master John Y. Beall, CSN, she was in fact to be part of a new plot on the part of Confederate agent Jacob Thompson to capture U.S.S. Michigan and attack the cities on Lake Erie, but the suspicions of Union authorities and the strict surveillance under which the ship was placed by Union agents prevented the plot from being carried out. Welles ordered Carter to seize Georgian if she ventured into American waters, but she was searched twice by local American and Canadian authorities without any hint of her true character being detected. Nevertheless, Union intelligence and close surveillance prevented this Confederate scheme from bearing fruit, and Georgian was laid up at Collingwood, on the Canadian side, eventually to be sold again to private parties.

Monitor U.S.S. Patapsco, commanded by Lieutenant Commander John Madigan, bombarded and set afire an unidentified sloop aground off Fort Moultrie, Charleston. Madigan noted: "She seems to have had a cargo of cotton and turpentine." Rear Admiral Dahlgren wrote: ". . . the work was so well done that the conflagration made a considerable appearance at night."

C.S.S. Shenandoah, commanded by Lieutenant Waddell, captured and burned schooner Charter Oak at sea off the Cape Verde Islands, after removing her passengers and a quantity of fruit, vegetables, and other provisions. Waddell remained near the burning prize to make sure she was consumed, and then, suspecting that Union cruisers might be attracted by the blaze, stood southward.

U.S.S. Fort Morgan, commanded by Lieutenant William B. Eaton, captured blockade runner John A. Hazard off the Texas coast (27º N, 96º W) with cargo including coffee, rice, oil, dry goods and medicines.

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Federals fought Price’s men at Cane Hill, Arkansas. Yankees skirmished with Indians at Sand Hills Stage Station, Nebraska Territory. Small affairs broke out at Fort Lyon, Colorado Territory. Other actions included a three-day Federal expedition from Vicksburg to Bayou Macon, Louisiana; Union scouting in Callaway County, Missouri; a skirmish on the McDonough Road near Atlanta, Georgia; and a three-day Federal expedition from New Creek to Moorefield, West Virginia. In Chicago the Confederate ringleaders of a plot to take over the city and free Camp Douglas prisoners were arrested. U.S.S. Fort Morgan, commanded by Lieutenant William B. Eaton, captured blockade running schooner Lone off Brazos Pass, Texas, with cargo including iron and bagging. Boats from U.S.S. Adela, commanded by Acting Lieutenant Louis N. Stodder, captured schooner Badger attempting to run the blockade out of St. George's Sound, Florida, with cargo of cotton.

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November 7, 1864 Monday
The Congress of the Confederate States of America gathered in Richmond for the second session of the Second Congress, a meeting destined to be its last. President Davis sent his message, and it was surprisingly optimistic. He played down the capture of Atlanta: “There are no vital points on the preservation of which the continued existence of the Confederacy depends.” Supplies would be found and even the financial outlook was “far from discouraging.” The President called for a general militia law and an end to most exemptions from service. Touching on a controversial issue, President Davis recommended that the government purchase slaves for work in the Army, then free them on discharge. Such a plan would replace the impressment system. He did not advocate use of Negroes as soldiers, although he left the door open in case the situation later required such employment. He concluded by saying the Confederacy favored a negotiated peace, but only with independence, not “our unconditional submission and degradation.”

By telegram President Davis urged Gen Hood to attempt to beat Sherman in detail “and subsequently without serious obstruction or danger to the country in your rear advance to the Ohio River.” On the fighting fronts there was a skirmish near Edenburg, Virginia and a Federal reconnaissance toward Stony Creek, Virginia. In the United States it was election eve. Samuel Read Anderson, CSA, is appointed to Brigadier General. The Federal 6th Army Corps is decommissioned.

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November 8, 1864 Tuesday
Abraham Lincoln was reelected President of the United States with Andrew Johnson of Tennessee as Vice-President ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta ... tion,_1864 ). Lincoln, the Republican or Union candidate, received 2,330,552 popular votes to Democrat Maj Gen George B. McClellan’s 1,835,985, giving Lincoln a plurality of 494,567 and over 55 per cent of the total vote. In the electoral vote Lincoln and Johnson received 212, while McClellan and George H. Pendleton of Ohio got 21, carrying only Delaware, Kentucky, and New Jersey. New York had been close. In the military vote Lincoln really triumphed, with 116,887 to 33,748 for McClellan, although these ballots did not change any state result. Gen McClellan wrote a day or two later that he was resigning from the Army and, as to the election, “For my country’s sake I deplore the result….” He disclaimed personal disappointment. Some Confederates said the election simply proved that the Federal policy of subjugation was popular in the North.

McClellan may once have been a popular general, but that and discontent with the war had not been sufficient to overcome the basic strength of the incumbent, nor the disapproval among many Democrats of their own platform. The Republicans and unionists increased their strong majority in the House to over two thirds and retained a heavy plurality in the Senate.

President Lincoln spent the evening at the War Office getting telegraphic election returns. Early in the morning he responded to a serenade and said that the election result “will be to the lasting advantage, if not to the very salvation, of the country.”

C.S.S. Shenandoah, commanded by Lieutenant Waddell, captured and burned bark D. Godfrey southwest of the Cape Verde Islands with cargo of beef and pork.

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November 9, 1864 Wednesday
The Federal Twenty-third Corps was going through Nashville on its way to reinforce the Fourth Corps at Pulaski, in expectation of a move into Tennessee by Hood. Meanwhile, on the Tennessee River in Alabama, Hood’s men skirmished at Shoal Creek and near Florence. Otherwise Federals scouted around Devall’s Bluff to Searcy, Arkansas and sent an expedition from Memphis to Moscow, Tennessee. Forrest continued toward Corinth, Mississippi.

While election returns were still coming in, assessment of the results began, with the usual afterthoughts and speculations.

Gen Sherman at Kingston, Georgia issued portentous orders. He ordered his army into a right wing consisting of the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Corps under O.O. Howard ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_O._Howard ) and a left wing with the Fourteenth and Twentieth Corps under Maj Gen H.W. Slocum ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Warner_Slocum ). There would be no general train and only a bare minimum of wagons. “The army will forage liberally on the country during the march.” If they met resistance from inhabitants, army commanders “should order and enforce a devastation more or less relentless….” And, furthermore, horses, mules, wagons might be appropriated freely. Sherman was about to plunge deeper into Georgia, toward the sea. He had long been urging such an expedition with another force to come in from the coast to meet him. Hood was in northern Alabama, and Sherman thought he had provided Thomas with sufficient force to halt Hood’s expected invasion of Tennessee.

U.S.S. Stepping Stones, commanded by Acting Lieutenant Daniel A. Campbell, captured blockade running sloops Reliance and Little Elmer in Mobjack Bay, Virginia.

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November 10, 1864 Thursday
Jubal Early, still trying to make a show of opposition in the Shenandoah Valley, moved north from New Market toward Sheridan. However, his force was far too small to have any impact. Sherman in Georgia continued preparing to move back toward Atlanta, destroy the railroad and other bases, and set out on his own. Forrest, back at Corinth, Mississippi from his successful west Tennessee foray to Johnsonville, was about ready to join Hood. A Federal scout probed near Memphis and a skirmish broke out at Neosho, Missouri.

In response to another election victory serenade, Lincoln said, “It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its own existence, in great emergencies…. We cannot have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.” He pointed out that the election in the midst of Civil War showed “how sound, and how strong we still are.” Now he called for unity in “a common effort, to save our common country.”

Josiah Gorgas, CSA; Edmund Jackson Davis, USA; Thomas John Lucas, USA; and James Richard Slack, USA; are appointed to Brigadier General.

C.S.S. Shenandoah, commanded by Lieutenant Waddell, captured and scuttled brig Susan at sea southwest of the Cape Verde Islands with cargo of coal. Waddell recalled later: "She leaked badly and was the dullest sailor I had ever seen; really she moved so slowly that barnacles grew to her bottom, and it was simply impossible for her crew to pump her out as fast as the water made."

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