Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Series 1, Volume 13. Page: 102
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SOUTH ATLANTIC BLOCKADING SQUADRON.
Order of Flag-Officer Du Pont, U. S. Navy, to Commander Strong,
U. S. Nay, commanding U. S. S. .Flag, to proceed for blockade
duty of Carleston, S. O.
FLAGSHIP WABASH,
Port Royal Harbor, S. C., June 14, 186.
SIR: You will please proceed with the U. S. S. Flag, under your com-
mand off Charleston, and report to Commander J. B. Marchand, the
senior officer, for blockading duty.
Respectfully, etc.,
S. F. Du POINT,
Flag- Oficer.
Commander J. H. STRONG,
U. S. S. Flag, Port Royal.
[Order of same date and like tenor to Lieutenant J. H. Upshur,
U. S. Navy, commanding U. S. S. Flambeau.]
Cooperation of the gunboats under Commander Drayton, U. S. Navy,
with the army in Stono River, Sauth Carolina, June 14-16, 18692.
Report of Commander Drayton, U. S. Navy, commanding U. S. S. Pawnee.
U. S. S. PAWNEE,
Stono [River], June 15, 1869.
DEAR SIR: There is nothing new since the 13th, except that the
army opened yesterday a battery of the three guns, two Parrott 30s,
one James', about 80-pounder, on the floating batter, and that at
Secessionville, at about a mile and a half. Sofar, I do not think
that any effect has been produced, although they seem to think it easy
for the Ellen, with one gun, to have settled the concern, or at least
they sometimes talk a little in that way, misled, perhaps, by our own
loud talking.
No change has taken place in the condition of things here, except
that by the work going on one would suppose that they were getting
ready for a siege ashore. I have given the Parrott gun to the Pem-
bina. Bankhead had managed to bush his, and reported it again in
pretty good condition, but is glad, of course, to get a new one; those
of the Ellen, I think now I can also have bushed, whenever I can get
her long enough in my neighborhood, and her services can be spared
for a day or two.
We have now, I think, plenty of ammunition, and coal enough for
a month, the way we use it, or at least very nearly that quantity.
General Hunter goes about as far in one extreme as some of the
army officers in the other; should we really perform some service of
consequence for the army no words would be left strong enough for
his thanks.
I send Mr. Haffards back, in case you should need him at Port
Royal.
I also put in his charge the two deserters I spoke of. From their
report, I should think the numbers on the island have been exaggerated,
although I should think it not difficult, with the stringent conscription102
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