Port Royal S.C. Feb 24 1862 cds on small cover to Stafford Corner, letter headed U.S. Gun Boat, Commodore McDonough, Stone Inlet S.C., to a freind: "We are having bully times here..and not much to do but eat and sleep and watch out for Blockade runners, We are now anchored near the village called McGruville...we were firing hundred pound shells at the Rebel batteries, were not near enough to do them much injury." (Image)

Est. 300