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ATLANTIC BLOCKADING SQUADRON.
July 19.--4 a. m., made Savannah, Ga.; exchanged signals with the
Jamestown and Flag; sent boat to them and received dispatches and
mail. Passed St. Helena Sound, Edisto Island, and Edisto Inlet; 1:30,
arrived off Charleston, S. C., and found the Wabash there and received
a mail; passed the Vandalia off Bull's Bay.
July 20.--5: 30 a. m., passed Wilmington, N. C.; met the U. S. S. Day-
light; made signal for the captain to come on board; received a mail.
July 21.--5: 30 a. m., beat to quarters; steamer in sight proved to be
the British steamer Gladiator; boarded the schooner Abby Bracket, from
Trinidad, Cuba, bound to New York; cargo, sugar and molasses; 5 p. m.,
boarded the schooner Cyclone, of New Bedford, Mass., from Frontera,
Mexico, bound to New York; cargo, logwood.
I regret to say that the engines of this ship have not proved as satis-
factory as I should have desired, suffering continually from hot journals
and other disarrangements. It will require from two to three days to
hoist the propeller and make the necessary repairs. I trust that the
cruise of this ship will prove satisfactory to you. We have cruised
along the coast from here to St. Augustine and back, during the day in
sight of land.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
G. J. PENDERGRAST,
Flag-Officer, Commanding West India Squadron.
Flag-Officer SILAS H. STRINGHAM,
Comdg. U. S. Blockading Squadron, Hampton Roads, Virginia.
Report of Flag- Officer Stringham, U. S. Navy, commanding Atlantic Block-
ading Squadron, regarding the discovery of a Confederate torpedo in
Hampton Roads.
U. S. S. MINNESOTA,
Hampton Roads, July 22, 1861.
SIR: I have the honor to inform the Department that by information
from one of the Baltimore pilots I learned there was a suspicious object
down on the Horseshoe between Old Point and the light-boat.
I immediately ordered the tug Young America to go down and bring
it up. It proved similar in form to the infernal machine* at the navy
yard in Washington, which was found in the Potomac, having but one
weight to it, however, buoyed by two water breakers, very neatly fixed
for that purpose.
It is now on shore by the fortress, not yet having been examined.
S. H. STRINGHAM,
Flag-Oficer, Atlantic Blockading Squadron.
Hon. GIDEON WELLES,
Secretary Navy.
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy to Flag-Oficer Stringham, U. S.
Navy, commanding Atlantic Blockading Squadron, regarding available
recruits at Annapolis.
NAVY DEPARTMENT, July 22, 1861.
SIR: The following force is available at Annapolis, which will be
ordered to your vessel if you require them, viz, 28 seamen, 12 ordinary
seamen, 41 landsinen, 13 boys; total, 91.
I am, respectfully, etc., GIDEON WELLES.
Flag-Officer S. H. STRINGHAM,
Commanding Atlantic Squadron, Hampton Roads, Virginia.
* See Vol. 4, pp. 566-568.26
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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/m1/49/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.