"Belle Italia" next appears in an expedition back to Corpus Christi to secure the release of the family of Judge Edmund Jackson Davis, a prominent political figure in Texas who had remained loyal to the Union and had escaped into exile to serve its cause.Kittredge, again in "Corypheus", entered Corpus Christi Bay with the Union schooner USS "Breaker" and landed under a flag of truce to ask that he be allowed to embark Mrs. Davis and reunite her with her husband.