Abstract
Abstract After The Suffolk Campaign Lamson received a brief furlough and paid a short visit to Kate in Mount Vernon, Ohio. When he returned to the flagship Minnesota he performed the varied but routine duties of a flag lieutenant for two months, interrupted by a brief naval demonstration up the James River during which Lamson commanded the gunboat USS Commodore Barney. On July 30 he received welcome orders to take command of a ship just acquired by the navy, the James Freeborn, built in 1862, a sidewheel steamer carrying three guns and rated at a maximum speed of fifteen knots. By 1863 specially designed blockade runners built in Britain and capable of great speeds were outrunning Union blockade ships, forcing the Union navy to put equally fast ships into blockade service. The Freeborn was renamed the USS Nansemond in honor of Lamson’s achievements on that river. In August 1863 he took her to sea in search of blockade runners, and soon added new laurels to his record.
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