...t was unable to reach the city, and went to Richmond. In that vicinity he participated in the famous repulse of Ericsson's monitor by the Drewry's Bluff battery, and remained at that station on the James river until early in 1864, when he was ordered abroad for duty on the vessels building in Europe. He sailed to Nassau, Havana, Southampton and London, and thence crossed to Paris, but found that the inte...