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James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5
Chapter 5:
The Gulf squadrons.
The command of the Gulf Blockading Squadron was assigned to Flag-Officer William Mervine, who had served in California during the Mexican war, and who had now been fifty-two years in the service.
He arrived in the Gulf on June 8, 1861, whither he was shortly followed by his flagship, the Colorado.
Before his arrival the blockade had been set on foot by the vessels already on the station.
Some of these had pushed westward late in May, and on the 26th of that month, the Powhatan, under Porter, arrived off Mobile, while the Brooklyn, taking her station on the same day off Pass-à--Loutre, announced the blockade of New Orleans.
The Powhatan remained off Mobile until the 29th, when she was relieved by the Niagara, which came in from Havana.
Porter then proceeded off the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi, which he blockaded on the 31st.
On the 13th of June the Massachusetts arrived off the Passes, where she remained on blockade duty.
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James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Appendix B. (search)