April 27, 1863, The Charleston Mercury
The sloop Eagle, Capt. BRENNON, laden with upland cotton, tobacco, &c., bound from Savannah for Nassau, got under weigh from her anchorage in St. Augustine Creek, Thursday night, about 8 o’clock, and proceeded to Warsaw Sound to go to sea. While passing Cabbage Island, the Yankee signal corps sent up rockets; no reply having been given to the signals in the Sound, Capt. BRENNON supposed that the coast was clear and that he could proceed to sea. About two o’clock, Friday morning, some two miles inside of Warsaw Sound, the sloop came immediately abreast and within one hundred yards of a three masted Yankee gunboat. The former was immediately put on the beach, Capt. BRENNON and his crew taking to their yawl boat with such of their effects as they could save, the vessel having been previously scuttled and fired. Capt. BRENNON and his crew, after a hard pull against a strong ebb tide, arrived at Thunderbolt about nine o’clock on Friday morning. The Eagle and her cargo was owned by Mr. MARCUS COHEN of Savannah and Mr. A.M. COHEN of Waresboro’, Georgia, and the whole was valued at $5000.