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The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], The fight at Aquia Creek. (search)
to them. To this I am the more impelled, by the slanderous assertion can't upon them by the commander of the enemy's flotilla. Had that officer, whose characteristic traits long since earned for him in his profession the cognomen of "Yankee Ward," for once violated his instincts and been sincere, he would have stated that men were seen running to wards, as well as from, the batteries, mostly bearing ammunition. The attack on Wednesday evening was repelled with spirit by Commander Thorburn, as I did not reach the battery until very near the close of the engagement. In writing my official report, I labored under the impression that the shot from Capt Walker's battery during Friday's engagement tell short, although it diverted the fire of the enemy; but the admissions of that enemy prove the fire of the rifled battery to have been effective, and that my impression was an erroneous one. During Friday's attack, Lieut. Barnes, of the Safford Guards, bore a message f