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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 6 0 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 13.95 (search)
st friends, the fleet, were twelve miles away; but anything was better than to fall into rebel hands, so I swam for the opposite shore. As I neared it a man [Samuel Higgins, fireman], one of my crew, gave a great gurgling yell and went down. The rebels were out in boats, picking up my men; and one of the boats, attracted by thter's Mate Thomas S. Gay, Otsego; Acting Third Assistant Engineer William Stotesbury, Picket-boat; Acting Third Assistant Engineer Charles L. Steever, Otsego; Samuel Higgins, first-class fireman, Picket-boat; Richard Hamilton, coal-heaver, Shamrock; William Smith, ordinary seaman, Chicopee; Bernard Harley, ordinary seaman, Chicope with those designated as attached to the Picket-boat, were the original seven who brought the boat down from New York. Cushing and Houghton escaped, Woodman and Higgins were drowned, and the remaining eleven were captured. For his exploit Lieutenant Cushing received the congratulations of the Navy Department, and also the than