Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of Rebellion, Series I, Volume 26 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

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NAVAL FORCES ON WESTERN WATERS. 453

Letter from Rear-Admiral Porter, U. S. Navy, to Major-General Canby, U. S. Ar7rsy, regarding transfer of U. S. steamers Chicka- saw and Winnebago for duty in Mississippi Sound, in accordance with suggestion of the latter.

MOUND Cm-, July 1, 1864.

SIR: Your communication of June 24* in relation to the expediency of sendiiig down the monitors Chickasaw and Winnebago to cooper- ate in the shallow water of Mississippi Sound in conjunction with some operations soon to be undertaken by your command has been received. In reply I beg leave to inform you that the two above-named vessels have been sent. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, DAVID D. PORTER, Rear-Admiral. Major-General IE. R. S. CANBY, Commdg. Militco y Division of the Mississippi, Vicksburg, Miss.

Report of Lieutenant-Commander Phelps, U. S. Navy, referring to affairs in White River.

U. S. GUNBOAT HA5flNGS, Mouth of White River, July 1, 1864.

SIR: I have ordered the commanding officer of the steamer Wilson to leave his tow of barges here and to proceed with all dispatch to Cairo for ammunition, requisitions for which are enclosed; and I respectfully request that she, or some fast vessel, may return with it, as the vessels are now very short of shell particularly and may have all on hand exhausted before more can be received. Captain Bache believes that Shelby will again appear upon the east bank of White River, if he has not already done so, and he fully concurs with me in the expectation that Marmaduke will occupy St. Charles, which is an exceedingly ugly place, and from which it will be difficult to drive him. The battery of the Queen City will all be recovered; and I propose to mount it in broadside on board the Carondelet, which vessel has now but one 100-pounder rifle on either side. Till the articles required for are received, she will have some 12-pounder howitzers borrowed from other gunboats. She will leave in about one hours time, accompanied by the Silver Cloud, with a convoy of three transports, for Devalls Bluff, and I shall follow up to-night, after having attended to everything here. The Fawn and Naurnkeag are alone at Clarendon. I think it would be advantageous to advance Captain Rogers, as he is the more reli- able one of the two old masters in command of those two vessels, while the other is the senior and is the senior master in this district.

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