Union monitors and gunboats shelled Confederate works on both sides of the river with telling effect in support of movements ashore. Hearing that Confederate forces were about to move against the blockaders off Charleston, Rear Admiral Dahlgren and Major General Foster planned a diversionary expedition up the Stono River, in-tending to cut the important Charleston-Savannah railroad. Johnson, and other ships of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron supported Army troops in a demonstration up the Stono River, South Carolina. The steamer had thrown her cargo of cotton overboard during the four hour chase, and was not brought to until Keystone had fired 22 shots at her, "all of them falling quite near and some directly over her."Ģ–9 Single-turreted monitors U.S.S. Keystone State, Commander Crosby, captured blockade running British steamer Rouen at sea off Wilmington. Budd, captured blockade running sloop Henrietta at sea west of Tampa, Florida, with cargo of cotton.Ģ U.S.S. Florida, Lieutenant Morris, captured and burned bark Harriet Stevens at sea southwest of Bermuda with cargo of lumber, cement, and gum opium Morris sent the opium in a blockade runner for hospital use. Only ram Tennessee was ready when the critical moment arrived on 5 August.Ĭ.S.S. The manpower and material shortages at Selma specifically crippled the progress of the ironclad squadron Admiral Buchanan was desperately trying to develop in Mobile Bay. 1 Secretary Mallory wrote President Davis that due to a shortage of mechanics the ordnance works at Selma, Alabama, could not "make more than one gun in a week, whereas with a proper number of mechanics it could manufacture with carriages and equipments complete, three in a week, and in a few months one every day Shortage of skilled craftsmen was a handicap the South could never overcome.
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