Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Series 1, Volume 5. Page: 7
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OPERATIONS ON THE POTOMAC AND RAPPAHANNOCK. 7
We have every confidence in our ability to do so, and also in Lieu-
tenant Parker's skill and bravery, and are willing in a body to follow
wherever he leads.
Hoping that your honor will take the foregoing humble request into
due consideration, meanwhile we anxiously await a favorable reply,
We are, respectfully, your obedient servants,
PETER THOMPSON,
HENRY A. DAVIS,
W. ALLEN,
EDWARD DIRHAM,
Captains of the Guns for their Respective Crews.
Hon. GIDEON WELLES,
Secretary of the Navy.
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy to Lieutenant Wyman, U. S.
Navy, commanding Potomac Flotilla, regarding reported infringement
of blockade.
NAVY DEPARTMENT, December 16, 1861.
SIR: Captain Shore, of the steamer Chamberlin, called at the Depart-
ment to-day and made the following verbal statement, viz:
I was coming up the river on Wednesday last; a flag was raised on Piney Point
light-house, and I went in. Mrs. Marshall, the keeper of the light, wished me to report
that five or six boat loads of rebels crossed over every night into Virginia with
provisions, etc.; that there was $10,000 worth of goods, ammunition, clothing, etc.,
in the woods .just above the light-house to be carried over. Men came to her every
day and asked her if any of the United States cutters were about, and told her she
had better keep away as they intended to destroy the light-house. The rebels
have a small steamer in the creek just above Ragged Point which they brought from
Fredericksburg.
Captain Shore also states that a small boat with provisions crossed
over at Ragged Point at 12 o'clock, m.
Two of our vessels were lying at Blakistone Island and could have
seen this boat.
I am, respectfully, etc.,
GIDEON WELLES.
Lieutenant I. H. WYMAN,
Commanding Potomac Flotilla.
Report of Lieutenant Wyman, U. S. Navy, commanding Potomac Flotilla,
regarding Confederate batteries at Boyd's Hole and Lower Shipping
Point, Va.
U. S. S. HARRIET LANE,
Potomac Flotilla, December 18, 1861.
SIR: I have the honor to report that last evening the enemy opened
a battery of two heavy guns at Boyd's Hole, the field battery which I
before reported having been withdrawn. Their range extends well
inside the Maryland shore. I have also reason to believe that another
battery is in course of construction in the vicinity of Hoar's [Hoe's?]
house, across the neck of land which forms the Chopawamsic Creek.
A reconnoissance has been made, but no response to our fire. The
enemy have placed an additional gun on the southern face of the Lower
Shipping Point battery, which has exploded a shell over Sandy Point,
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United States. War Department. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Series 1, Volume 5., book, 1897; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth192840/m1/32/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.