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