 The next day, they captured three small sloops, but were forced to abandon their prizes—along with two of their own boats—to escape attacks by a numerically superior Confederate force.Kittredge and his party managed to escape without injury.During the spring of 1862, Flag Officer David Glasgow Farragut, the squadron commander, reinforced Kittredge with the yacht , purchased from the Key West prize court, and the screw gunboat .