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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 10: naval engagement at South-West pass.--the Gulf blockading squadron in November, 1861. (search)
at had early in the war commenced to swarm upon the coast like bees about the honey flowers. But they were disappointed in their expectations, for as early as June, 1861, Commodore McKean sent the Powhatan, Lieut. D. D. Porter, to close up the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi, and Commander U. S. Sloop of war Brooklyn, off Pensacola. Charles Poor, in the Brooklyn, to blockade Pass à l'outre. It was through the latter channel that the Sumter, Captain Semmes, escaped to sea, while the neared the head of the passes, when ineffectual attempts were made to get her head up stream (which could easily have been done by letting go an anchor). The vain efforts continued until the steamships had drifted a mile and a half down the Southwest Pass, when they were discontinued, the helm put up, and the vessel headed towards Pilottown, where her commander thought he would be able to turn round! When she arrived at Pilottown she still drifted on, and strange to say, she drifted towa
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 18: capture of forts Jackson and St. Philip, and the surrender of New Orleans. (search)
iciently to cross the bar at Southwest Pass. Towed by the Harriet Lane, Owasco, Westfield, and Clifton, all the mortar schooners crossed the bar at Pass à l'outre on March 18th, and were ordered by Farragut to proceed via the junction to the Southwest Pass. At this time the only vessels that had crossed the bar at the Southwest Pass, after an unsuccessful attempt with the Brooklyn at Pass a l'outre, were the Hartford and the Brooklyn. The Navy Department had been mistaken in sending vessSouthwest Pass, after an unsuccessful attempt with the Brooklyn at Pass a l'outre, were the Hartford and the Brooklyn. The Navy Department had been mistaken in sending vessels of such draught as the Colorado, Pensacola, and Mississippi, for though the two latter ships were finally with great difficulty worked over, the time lost amounted to at least twelve days, with a corresponding delay of the fleet. Farragut's first act upon reaching the Mississippi was to despatch his Chief of Staff, Capt. Henry H. Bell, with the gunboats Kennebec and Wissahickon up tile river on a reconnoissance. After returning from the neighborhood of the forts, Capt. Bell reported tha