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Naval Aviation Started.
John LaMountain made first ascent in a balloon from Union ship
Fanny at Hampton Roads to observe Confederate batteries on
Sewell's Point, Virginia--a small beginning for the potent aircraft
carrier in the tridimensional Navy of the Twentieth Century.
Congress authorized Secretary of the Navy Welles to "appoint a
board of three skillful naval officers to investigate the plans and
specifications that may be submitted for the construction or
completing of iron or steel-clad steamships or steam batteries . . .
there is hereby appropriated . . . the sum of one million five
hundred thousand dollars." Commodore Joseph Smith, Captain
Hiram Paulding, Commander Charles H. Davis appointed to the
Ironclad Board on 8 August.
U.S.S. Wabash, commanded by Captain Mercer, recaptured
American schooner Mary Alice, which had been taken by
Confederate ship Dixie, and captured brig Sarah Starr, a
blockade runner, off Charleston.
U.S.S. South Carolina, under Commander Alden, engaged
Confederate batteries at Galveston.
Prince Napoleon [Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte] of
France, traveling in U.S. as private citizen, visits President at noon
"The Prince, arriving (at White House) with Baron Mercier, found
no one—neither butler nor doorman—at the main entrance to
show him in . . . I do not remember which employee, who
happened to be passing by, took care of this duty." The meeting
was "not so gay"; the Prince, huffed at his reception, "took a cruel
pleasure in remaining silent."
From Camille Ferri-Pisani, Prince Napoleon in America, 1861:
Letters from His Aide-de-Camp
.
John LaMountain made first ascent in a balloon from Union ship
Fanny at Hampton Roads to observe Confederate batteries on
Sewell's Point, Virginia--a small beginning for the potent aircraft
carrier in the tridimensional Navy of the Twentieth Century.
Congress authorized Secretary of the Navy Welles to "appoint a
board of three skillful naval officers to investigate the plans and
specifications that may be submitted for the construction or
completing of iron or steel-clad steamships or steam batteries . . .
there is hereby appropriated . . . the sum of one million five
hundred thousand dollars." Commodore Joseph Smith, Captain
Hiram Paulding, Commander Charles H. Davis appointed to the
Ironclad Board on 8 August.
U.S.S. Wabash, commanded by Captain Mercer, recaptured
American schooner Mary Alice, which had been taken by
Confederate ship Dixie, and captured brig Sarah Starr, a
blockade runner, off Charleston.
U.S.S. South Carolina, under Commander Alden, engaged
Confederate batteries at Galveston.
Prince Napoleon [Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte] of
France, traveling in U.S. as private citizen, visits President at noon
"The Prince, arriving (at White House) with Baron Mercier, found
no one—neither butler nor doorman—at the main entrance to
show him in . . . I do not remember which employee, who
happened to be passing by, took care of this duty." The meeting
was "not so gay"; the Prince, huffed at his reception, "took a cruel
pleasure in remaining silent."
From Camille Ferri-Pisani, Prince Napoleon in America, 1861:
Letters from His Aide-de-Camp
.