“...February 11th”

I’ve been reading the history of Ocean Springs Mississippi. The town where my Salves ancestors were held in bondage. It may be...found conflicting dates that on this day in 1864 the Army of the North landed and eventually freed the Slaves there including my great-great grandmother ‘Tempy’. The ‘New Orleans Weekly Times’ on March 18, 1864: “On Tuesday, February 11th, the gunboats, USS Narcissus and the USS Cowslip, went on an expedition up the Back Bay of Biloxi in command of Lieutenant Commander W.F. Fitzhugh. At 10 o'clock A.M. they put to port at Ocean Springs.” ...Family history sez Union troops entered the town. No stories of fighting. After some days the Union commander read a proclamation declaring all ‘Bondsmen’ within the township and surrounding areas were “...forthwith emancipated.” My family was free.