WASINGTON, April 29. – By the steamer Connecticut, the Navy Department received despatches from Com. Faragat [sic] and Capt. Porter to April [22].
The steamers Pembina and Mississippi were over the bar, and the flotilla were moving to take their position.
Two Confederate schooners loaded with cotton, bound for Havanna [sic], were captured in attempting to run the blockade.
Prisoners report that there were several gunboats building at New Orleans, and five were already on lake Ponchartrain. Several lately went up the river with the steam ram and ten thousand men.
The schooner Columbia, of Galvaston, landed with cotton and bound for Jamaica was captured by a party from the steamer Montgomery. – Not being able to bring her out, the schooner was destroyed.
On April 4th, an expedition en rout for Pass Christian, consisting of the steamers New London, Jackson and Lewis, with troops, were attacked by the Rebel schooners Oregon, Pamlico and Carondelet. After a fight of 30 minutes the Lewis was withdrawn, owning to the crowded state of her decks. The others continued the fight one hour and forty minutes, when the enemy withdrew, apparently much injured. The expedition then landed at Pass Christian.
The Rebel merchant schooner, Wallace, laden with turpentine, rosin and lime, was chased and captured.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday May 3, 1862, p. 4
The steamers Pembina and Mississippi were over the bar, and the flotilla were moving to take their position.
Two Confederate schooners loaded with cotton, bound for Havanna [sic], were captured in attempting to run the blockade.
Prisoners report that there were several gunboats building at New Orleans, and five were already on lake Ponchartrain. Several lately went up the river with the steam ram and ten thousand men.
The schooner Columbia, of Galvaston, landed with cotton and bound for Jamaica was captured by a party from the steamer Montgomery. – Not being able to bring her out, the schooner was destroyed.
On April 4th, an expedition en rout for Pass Christian, consisting of the steamers New London, Jackson and Lewis, with troops, were attacked by the Rebel schooners Oregon, Pamlico and Carondelet. After a fight of 30 minutes the Lewis was withdrawn, owning to the crowded state of her decks. The others continued the fight one hour and forty minutes, when the enemy withdrew, apparently much injured. The expedition then landed at Pass Christian.
The Rebel merchant schooner, Wallace, laden with turpentine, rosin and lime, was chased and captured.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday May 3, 1862, p. 4
