Sagamore, Lieutenant Commander English, captured blockade running British schooner By George off Indian River, Florida, with cargo including coffee and salt. lam very glad to learn that John Rodgers and Worden were with Drayton on his last trial of the Passaic, for the more we learn of the new tools we have to use the better two rams are completed at Charleston to add to the harbor defenses but for the strong force I have off here, I think they would have attempted to raid across the bar." Rear Admiral Du Pont again remarked on the Charleston defenses and his growing forces with which to attack them in a letter to Senator Grimes: ''The rebel defenses of Charleston are still progressing– The English officers who have been in and the blockade runners whom we capture, smile at the idea of its being taken, and say it is stronger than Sebastabol but they said the same of New Orleans. Florida, wrote: "As the Alabama and Florida are the only two cruisers we have just now, it would be a perfect absurdity to tilt against their more than three hundred, for the Federals would gladly sacrifice fifty armed ships to extinguish the two Confederates.'' The number of persons employed on board our naval vessels, including receiving ships and recruits, is about 28,000 and there are not less than 12,000 mechanics and laborers employed at the different navy yards and naval stations." armed in the aggregate with 1,577 guns, and of the capacity of 240,028 tons. 1 In his second annual report, Secretary of the Navy Welles informed President Lincoln: "We have at this time afloat or progressing to rapid completion a naval force consisting of 427 ves-sels.
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