Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of Rebellion, Series I, Volume 18 by United States Department of the Navy

Author:United States Department of the Navy
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Official Records, Civil War
Publisher: United States Department of the Navy
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Were sent in the prize; the others are still retained as prisoners on board.

The captains clerk and pilot ran, and Mr. Smith, passenger, was sent on shore at Mulberry Island, to the southward of Vermilion Bay, at his own request. The boat could not land and he goes with others to the Mississippi Passes. GEO. F. EMMONS, Commander

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488 WEST GULF BLOCKADING SQUADRON. List of cargo found on board steamer Gorernor Mouton. 4 bbls. pork. 2 anchors. 18 kits mackerel. 1 chain. 9~ bbls. mackerel. One box containing 47 1-lb. canis- 1 hIM. oil or lard. ters of powder, 1 bag of balls, 15 boxes tobacco. 1 old rifle, 1 old musket, and a 16 bags flour, few articles of provisions were 2 lids. bacon. retained on board of the Hat- 1 tierce bacon. teras, with six prisoners, and the 1 lid. corn meal, furniture and bedding usual in 2 boats. such boats. G. F. EMMONS, commander.

Order ~f the Secretary of the Navy to Flag- O,fticer Farragut, U. S. Navy, regarding the raising of the U. S. S. Varuna.

NAVY DEPARTMENT, iFlay 13, 1862.

Siu: The Department has directed Messrs. Johnson & Higgins, of New York, to send one of their agents to New Orleans in the steamer connecticut to examine the sunken steamer V~truna, with a view of raising her. If the Varuna can not be raised by the force under your command, you are authorized to contract with this agent on the terms you may deem best for the interest of the Government for the raising of her or any other sunken vessel belonging to the U. S. Navy. Very respectfully, GIDEON WELLES. Flag-Officer D. G. FARRAGUT, commanding West Gulf Blockading Squadron.

Order of captain Jiforris, U. S. Navy, to Lieutenant Preble, U S. Navy, commanding U. S. S. Katahdin, regarding the procuring of coal. U. S. SLOOP OF WAR PENSACOLA, Off New Orleans, ]JKliay 13, 1862.

SIR: You will proceed as soon as possible down the river and fill up your coal, taking as mucli in bags as you can stow on deck. After filling your bunkers you will then take a full coal vessel in tow (selecting the largest that you can tow) and proceed with her up the river and join the squadron. You will please to order as many of the coal vessels as you can com- municate with to get underway and come up to the city, whenever the wind will enable them to do so. On your return up the river, when you get near this ship, I will have a letter ready for you to take to the flag-officer. I am, very respectfully, HENRY W. MORRIS, captain, Senior OjfJlcer Present. Lieutenant GEORGE H. PREBLE, commanding U S. Gunboat Katahdin, off New Orleans

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WEST GULF BLOCKADING SQUADRON. 489

CwIL~pandevce with the authorities at Natchez and Vicksburg, Miss., Miay 13 to 22, 1862.

Letter of transmittal from Flag-Officer Farragut, U. S. Navy, to the Secretary of the Navy. No. 93.] U. S. FLAGSHIP HARTFORD,

Near Natche2, Miss., May 27, 1862.

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