War of the Rebellion: from the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies and Navies
    

Extracts from the journal of Commander Semmes, C.S. Navy, commanding C.S.S. Sumter

Wednesday, June 26.—Cloudy and occasional rain squalls. The Ivy returned from the city and brought me eighty barrels of coal. Sent the pilot in the light-house keeper’s boat to sound the southeast bar. The Federal ships keep close watch at the bars, neither having stirred from her anchor since my arrival here.
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