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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
re, after exchanging a few shots with the enemy. On the following day the same Federal cruiser bombarded the town of Urbanna, which served as a depot for the contraband trade with Maryland. In the mean time, the Confederates had armed the Patrick Henry on the James River, a steamer which formerly plied in Chesapeake Bay, and of which they had taken possession. On the 2d of December they wished to try her strength against the small vessels which came up the James from the anchoringgrounds at Newport News to make reconnaissances. But those vessels having fallen back at her approach on the large ships at anchor in the harbor, the Patrick Henry only exchanged a few cannon-shots with them, and then disappeared without making any further demonstration. A few weeks after, the Confederates were more fortunate. Captain Lynch, formerly an officer in the Federal navy, who had acquired some distinction before the war by his hydrographical exploration of the Dead Sea, had been placed in c
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book V:—the first winter. (search)
rrow and difficult channels. In the mean while, during the calm of a beautiful spring morning, the Confederates were making active preparations for battle. Five steamers, formerly employed as packets on the Chesapeake, had been armed, the Patrick Henry with six guns, the Jamestown with two, and each of the other three with one. This flotilla had descended the James River, and passing off Newport News during the night stood in for the Virginia, which, on the morning of the 8th, was coming o mud. Their destruction seemed inevitable; but fortunately the state of the tide at that moment did not allow the Virginia to approach them nearer than sixteen hundred metres. Buchanan opened fire at that distance, while at the same time the Patrick Henry and the Jamestown, favored by their light draught of water, took position nearer to the Minnesota, and commenced cannonading her with their rifled pieces. Many people on board this vessel were killed and wounded; but the game between them wa