BAILEY’S DAM

Steven D. Smith
Division of Archaeology

George J. Castille III
Coastal Environments, Inc.

I trust some future historian will treat this matter as it deserves to be treated, because it is a subject in which the whole country should feel an interest, and the noble men who succeeded so admirably in this arduous task should not lose one atom of credit so justly due them.

—Rear Admiral David D. Porter May 16, 1864 Letter to Hon. Gideon Welles