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was again afloat, the expedition once more headed for deep water, but took the wrong channel and again struck the bottom. After strenuously, although futilely, striving to pull free, the Union sailors decided to wait for help from the rising tide. However, a short while later, a Confederate force of
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s launch, struggled across the marshy waters of St. George's Sound for three days before reaching the Ocklocknee where Hoffner found "…a dismasted vessel lying close to starboard bank…." While the Union party approached the partially sunken ship, the Southerners who had been on board escaped to
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and the launch. Both scraped on the bottom but were kept in motion by wading sailors who dragged the boats for about half a mile over mud flats before they floated free. Confederate riflemen kept the party under fire throughout the retreat, killing one man outright and wounding eight others,
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On 28 May the sloop was driven ashore by the wind and wrecked on St. George's Island where she was set afire to prevent her being recaptured by the South.
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That night a stiff breeze from the northeast arose and the next day it began to increase steadily in intensity. By 27 May, the wind had reached
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carrying 64 bales of cotton. Her master and a single passenger were still on board. The Union sailors refloated the vessel and took her to
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and muskets while their companions set fire to the prize before the whole Union party withdrew in
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soon returned to St. Georges Sound and, some two months later, was within signal distance of USS
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and sent her to Key West, for adjudication, and she was condemned by the prize court there.
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ashore on the mainland where she and her crew would be at the mercy of Confederate forces.
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sailing westward along the southern coast of St. George's Island; and her captain β€”
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about 40 mounted soldiers and 150 infantrymen arrived and attacked the expedition.
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On March 20, Acting Volunteer Lieutenant George E. Welch β€” who commanded the Union
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to investigate a report that a schooner was loading cotton at that place.
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On February 18, 1863, while anchored off New Inlet, St. George's Sound,
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was wrecked in a storm and her crew burned her to prevent capture.
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Once the boats were free of the mud, they proceeded to waters off
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shore in boats. Hoffner tried to tow his quarry back toward the
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Robert B. Smith to lead a reconnaissance expedition up the
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American Civil War auxiliary ships of the United States
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American Civil War patrol vessels of the United States
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F. Crosman β€” sent 281:Apalachicola, Florida 241:of the Union steamer 216:ports to enforce the 1902:G. L. Brockenborough 1291:G. L. Brockenborough 1065:May (unknown date): 510:on February 14, 2020 378:to the mouth of the 340:Lieutenant Commander 285:G. L. Brockenborough 70:G. L. Brockenborough 1927:Margaret and Jessie 430:St. Mark's, Florida 416:fought back with a 1991:Pride of the Yarra 1088:General Beauregard 263:Apalachicola River 255:Edward Y. 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Index

Union Navy
Ship's tender
gunboat
howitzer
sloop
Union Navy
American Civil War
ship's tender
gunboat
Confederate
Union blockade
commanding officer
Fort Henry
Acting
Lieutenant
Edward Y. McCauley
Master
Apalachicola River
Sagamore
howitzer
guerrillas
Apalachicola, Florida
sloop
Key West, Florida
prize court
Port Royal
Somerset
schooner
Lieutenant Commander
Havana, Cuba

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