Skedaddle Web Log: 04/18/2004

Added the following:

January 7, 1864
Order of Rear-Admiral Dahlgren, U S. Navy, enjoining precautions in view of probable attack by Confederate torpedo boats.
Examination of -------Belton; information obtained from the examination of deserters from the enemy.

See our index for pages.

More Hunley

Added the following

Torpedo Warfare - excerpt from 1878 article from The North American Review
Destruction of a United States Steamer by a Torpedo - March 1864 article in Scientific American

More on the Hunley

Added the following:

Confederate Commerce-Destroyers. The Blockade of the Confederacy - excerpt from 1898 article in The Century; includes claim that divers found the torpedo boat on the bottom "at a distance of many yards from the Housatonic."

The Cigar Boat - excerpt from "The Confederate Torpedo Service," an 1898 article in The Century; includes claim that divers found the boat "lying near the wreck of the noble ship she had destroyed."

Has the Day of the Great Navies Passed? - excerpt from 1877 article by Isaac Newton in The Galaxy

More Hunley

More additions

U. S. S. Housatonic Statistical Data

March 3, 1864
Letter with information on the submarine boat that sank the Housatonic from J. D. Breaman to his wife, Nelly

April 19, 1864
Report of Captain De Camp, U S. Navy, regarding the discovery of a suspicious object in the water supposed to be a torpedo boat.
Order of Commodore Rowan, U. S. Navy, to Captain De Camp, U. S. Navy, in view of the discovery of the supposed torpedo “David.”

Added the following

February 29, 1864
Order of Acting Rear Admiral Lee, U. S. Navy, relative to protection against torpedo attack.
Report of Lieutenant - Commander Upshur, U. S. Navy, regarding means of checking a torpedo attack by the enemy.

March 24, 1864
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy to Rear-Admiral Dahlgren, U. S. Navy, recommending the use of small steamers supplied with calcium lights as protection against torpedoes

Hunley material

Added the following pages:

Statistical Data and Images
C. S. S. Hunley Statistical Data
Letters of Marque and Reprisal - a table with details for Hunley
Hunley and Housatonic Images

Changed the index page to
Navy and Army Official Records, Union and Confederate index which is the only link right now on the Hunley index page

Added several Hunley images to the Hunley and Housatonic image page

Added source information for every document on the Hunley sub-site (shoulda done it on each page when it was created)

New web log template

I'm not interested in learning how to design blog templates, but the one that we were using was just not satisfactory. Whenever the cursor was placed over a link, the link would disappear. Other than that, I liked the template for the most part.

After spending (a very little) time trying to figure out template to change the color of the 'mouse-over,' I started browsing blog "skins." After finding one that I liked, I adapted it to our use.

And there you have it.

April 12, 1864
Submerged Torpedo Boat In Preparation For Attack Upon The Fleet At. Mobile.
February 20, 1864
Report of a gun-boat sunk off Battery Marshall, possibly blown up by missing torpedo-boat