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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Confederate steamship Patrick Henry. (search)
nd as I had been executive officer of the Patrick Henry, the Flag-Officer requested me to give himquite at liberty to send it to him. The Patrick Henry, a side-wheel steamer of beautiful model ahe night of the 1st of December, 1861, the Patrick Henry again went down the river, keeping a sharperies and vessels at Newport News, and the Patrick Henry was ordered to participate in the battle. day before the attack was to be made, the Patrick Henry was moved down to Day's Neck, and an anchos necessary to pass them. The guns of the Patrick Henry were elevated for a range of eight hundreds, but not a sound came from them. As the Patrick Henry ranged up abreast of the first battery shee minutes before the signal officer of the Patrick Henry could make out the numbers. At length he informed me that the signal officer of the Patrick Henry did not read the Virginia's signal correcthe most effective gun on the Bluff was the Patrick Henry's 8-inch solid shot gun; the working of th[28 more...]