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with the Owasco and Clifton, to reinforce Commodore Eagle in
the blockade of that port. A demand for the surrender of Gal-
veston previous to this date had been ignored by the Confederate
fo.Ices there because the commodore's vessel The Old Santee was
of too deep, draft to enter the harbor or to approach within effec-
tive range of the shore.
On October 1, 1862, Commodore Eagle was relieved of the com-
mand of the blockading squadron by Commodore William H. Ren-
shaw, with the Westfield for flagship. Renshaw at once demanded
the surrender of the port, but the demand was rejected. On the
morning of October 4, the fleet crossed the bar, proceeding up the
channel in the following order: the Westfield, flagship, on the
right, the Clifton with Bomb Schooner No. 19 in tow on the left,
the Harriet Lane and Owasco in the center. As they came on,
the fort on Pelican Island on the western side of the channel
opened at long range with a, ten-inch Columbiad. This was replied
to by the entire fleet, with eleven-inch shells and rifle shot. As
this Columbiad was the only gun that the Confederates had not
removed from the fortifications, all the other batteries being armed
with "Quaker guns," i. e. wooden logs, the works were immediately
abandoned. The fleet then proceeded up the harbor to the city
front and came to anchor.
On October 9, the Clifton's guard, marines, and one hundred
sailors landed for the purpose of raising the United States flag
on the customs house. The wharves and town were guarded by
the firemen in full uniform by order of Mayor George W. Grover,
and they acted as escort for the Federals to the custom, house when
the mayor delivered the key of the city to Captain Wainright of
"The Harriet Lane." When the flag was raised and saluted, the
Federals returned on board the vessel.' A force of two hundred
and sixty men-Companies D, G, and I of the Forty-second Mas-
sachusetts Volunteers, under command of Colonel Isaac S. Bur-
rell, were landed on December 25 and barricaded on Kuhn's wharf
at the foot of Twentieth Street. It was intended to land them on
Pelican Spit, where were the military barracks, but Commodore
Renshaw, and Captains Law and Wainright considered Kuhn's
"Gussley, "Yankee Notebook," published in Galveston News, by W. P.
Doran of Hempstead, Texas, under the pseudonym "Sioux."362
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