Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Series 1, Volume 6. Page: 25
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ATLANTIC BLOCKADING SQUADRON.
Report of Flag-Officer Stringham, U. S. Navy, commanding Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, transmitting report of Flag-Officer Pendergrast,
U. S. Navy, commanding West India Squadron, of the cruise of the
U. S. S. Roanoke, naming vessels boarded.
U. S. S. MINNESOTA,
Hampton Roads, July 22, 1861.
SIR: I have the honor to report the arrival at this point this morning
of the U. S. S. Roanoke.
I send a copy of report of Flag-Officer Pendergrast.
A survey has been held on the propeller and report made that it will
take three days to disconnect and repair, after which the Roanoke will
proceed again to sea.
I am in receipt this morning of a report* from L. C. Sartori, of the
Flag, a copy of which I enclose.
If the Iroquois reports to me, I suggest to the Department that she
take the place of the Flag while the Flag returns for repairs.
I think very favorably of the latter for blockading, as I have before
mentioned.
The charter of the Union expires to-day. I have written to the
Department about her. In the meantime I shall send her down to relieve
the Quaker City while the latter coals. Yesterday two men from Maine
were sent down from the Mount Vernon. They escaped from Virginia.
I have sent them to General Butler. The tug Young America, which
brought them, also towed a small sloop taken by the Mount Vernon.
She is one of the bay craft used in cruising from [the] eastern shore.
Respectfully. your obedient servant,
S. H. STRINGHAM,
Flag Oficer, Atlantic Blockading Squadron.
Hon. GIDEON WELLES,
Secretary of Navy.
'Enclosure.]
U. S. FLAGSHIP ROANOKE,
Off Fortress Monroe, July 22, 1861.
SIR: I have the honor to make the following report of the cruise of
this ship since my last report, dated off Charleston, S. C., July 14, 1861:
July 14.-Arrived off Charleston, S. C. Found the Wabash, Vanda-
lia, and Union there.
July 15.-Dispatched the Vandalia to Bull's Bay under [Cape] Romain
Shoals to act as a blockader there; she being within short distance of
the Wabash, will also act in connection with her off Charleston. The
same afternoon the U. S. S Union left for Hampton Roads. A survey
was held on the engines of this ship. Two days were required to make
the necessary repairs.
July 17.-Left Charleston Bar at 5:30 a. m; 7:30 passed Edisto Inlet;
at 12 m. passed the mouth of St. Helena Sound; 4:30 p. m. arrived off
Savannah, Ga., and found the U. S. sloop of war Jamestown, Commander
Green, and U. S. S. Flag, Lieutenant Commanding Sartori, there. Gave
each of them copies of extracts for their information. At 5 p. m. again
got underway.
July 18.-8 a. m., passed Fernandina light-house; brig Perry not there;
10:30, sighted the mouth of St. John's River; rebels fired six guns from
a battery 5 or 6 miles off; number of tents on the beach. Sighted St.
Augustine Harbor and then returned north.
* See p. 15.25
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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 6., book, 1897; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth192841/m1/48/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.