Monday, May 8, 1865

The first of the Confederate fleet bgean to arrive today.  The names of the boats, according to William Fleming, were the Jeff Davis, Black Diamond, Magnolia, Southern Republic, Cherokee, Robert Watson, Mary Stone, Admiral C W Dorence, Reindeer, Black Diamond, Duke, St. Charles, St. Nickolas, Marengo, Sumter, White Lilly, and the gunboats Morgan, Nashville, and Baltick.