 Coming ashore at an " oblique " angle , the storm crossed the coast at modern Burrwood , Louisiana , and traversed the Mississippi River Delta . The storm made landfall in Mississippi between Biloxi and Pascagoula early on August 12 . The hurricane quickly weakened as it continued inland and turned toward the east , likely deteriorating below tropical storm status while over southern Georgia , although because the hurricane database does not utilize tropical depression status for storms before 1871 , it is listed as maintaining tropical storm intensity as it crossed the southeastern U.S. ; by August 14 , it had remerged into the western Atlantic Ocean . Ship reports from the vicinity of the system indicate it regained some strength once over open waters , although it only persisted a couple more days before it disappeared on records . 
