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History of the Confederate Navy, pp. 439, 533. Besides the regular ship channel there were two shallow entrances to Mobile Bay, through which blockade-runners passed. Soley,
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The Blockade and the Cruisers, p. 134. Regular water communication with New Orleans was kept up until 1862 through Mississippi Sound. Scharf, p. 535; Maclay,
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A History of the United States Navy,
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Alabama,