Reclaim Alabama

ST. ANDREWS BAY DURING THE CIVIL WAR BY GEORGE MORTIMER WEST https://books.google.com/books?id=YDwVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=%22George%20Mortimer%20West%22%20%22St.%20Andrews%20Bay%2C%20with%20its%20many%20secluded%22&source=bl&ots=bWFeDstpHu&sig=ACfU3U1CEvhijhzHqJM1c7Moom_il1Vwqg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi75YCu5JrhAhUhTd8KHbKWDsAQ6AEwAHoECAAQAQ&fbclid=IwAR3OkHaQEu34phy1xCR7EuCJkip_-HA211877psGrsdmrU2yMVZvZpPHEDE#v=onepage&q=%22George%20Mortimer%20West%22%20%22St.%20Andrews%20Bay%2C%20with%20its%20many%20secluded%22&f=false

U.S.S. R.R. CUYLER https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_R._R._Cuyler_(1860)

U.S.S. WATER WITCH https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Water_Witch_(1851)

U.S.S. BEAUREGARD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Beauregard_(1861)

U.S.S. SAMUEL ROTAN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Samuel_Rotan_(1861)

U.S.S. SAGAMORE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Sagamore_(1861)

U.S.S. PURSUIT
(a 144 foot bark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barque )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pursuit_(1861)

U.S.S. ALBATROSS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Albatross_(1858)

U.S.S. WANDERER

schooner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schooner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wanderer_(1857)

U.S.S. BOHIO

Brig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brig

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bohio_(1856)

U.S.S. RESTLESS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Restless_(1861)

schooner KAIN

U.S.S. BLOOMER https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bloomer_(1856)

U.S.S. ROEBUCK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Roebuck_(1856)

British schooner EMMA AMELIA

U.S.S. CAROLINE

U.S.S. KINGFISHER https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kingfisher_(1861)

STEAMER FLORIDA

U.S.S. MIDNIGHT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Midnight_(1861)

EAST GULF BLOCKADING SQUADRON https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924051350969;view=1up;seq=668

MATERIAL PERTAINING TO ST. ANDREWS BAY AND THE CONFEDERATE SALT FAMINE

from the OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE NAVIES:

... St. Andrew's Sound, from the East Pass of Santa Rosa's Sound, with the stern-wheel steamer BLOOMER and her tender, the sloop CAROLINE, having heard of the expedition to Lake Ocola [ed. note: Phillips Inlet], and placed his command at the disposal of Acting Master Browne, for more extensive operations near St. Andrew's. Accordingly, three officers and forty-eight men were sent from the RESTLESS to the BLOOMER, and she proceeded to West Bay, where the rebel government's salt-works were first destroyed, which produced 400 bushels daily. At this place there were twenty- seven buildings, twenty-two large boilers, and some 200 kettles, averaging 200 gallons each, all of which were destroyed, together with 2,000 bushels of salt, and some storehouses containing three months' provisions. The whole was estimated at half a million dollars. From this point the expedition proceeded down the bay, destroying private salt-works, which lined each side for a distance of seven miles, to the number of one hundred and ninety-eight different establishments, averaging two boilers and two kettles each, together with large quantities of salt. Five hundred and seven kettles were dug up and rendered useless, and over three hundred buildings were destroyed, together with twenty-seven wagons and five large flat-boats. The entire damage to the enemy is estimated by Acting Master Browne at $3,000,000. Thirty-one contrabands [ed. note: fugitive slaves], employed at these works, gladly availed themselves of this opportunity to escape, and were of great service in pointing out the places where the kettles were buried...