On Thursday, February 20, 1908, THE PANAMA CITY PILOT published the official December 28, 1863 report of the destruction of the salt works at St. Andrews Bay and "Lake Ocala" (a.k.a. Phillips Inlet/Lake Powell). The Yankees estimated that they did $3 million damage, allowed 31 "contrabands" (slaves) to "escape" and burned 32 houses in old St. Andrews. Ella Lonn, a Goucher College professor from Baltimore, who wrote the classic book, SALT AS A FACTOR IN THE CONFEDERACY, stated about St. Andrews Bay, “Nowhere perhaps was a greater persistence manifested than in St. Andrews Bay in rebuilding the works so continually destroyed by the Federal fleet. It is difficult to explain whence the Richmond authorities found the means and assembled the materials for this really remarkable feat.”