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The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], How many? (search)
Brilliant Action of Florida Volunteers--Recapture of Prizes--United States LI a tenant and Nineteen Sailors Taken Prisoners. The New Orleans Delta of July 12, contains the following: We had the satisfaction to-day of hearing from the lips of Capt. N. H. Smith, of the schooner Olive Branch, the full particulars of one of the most successful and gratifying incidents in the history of the blockade, which an insolent foe is attempting to maintain on our coast. The telegraph has already announced the recapture off the Florida coast of four small schooners. which the piratical Massachusetts stole in the Mississippi Sound, and bore off as prizes, to divide as booty among the hirelings of Abe Lincoln, including those sentimental and patriotic young officers of the United States Navy, who profess so much fraternal feeling for our people, but do not shrink from the most petty stealing, which even a barbarous tribe would scorn to employ in a regular war. The four schooner
The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Freak of nature. (search)
y morning, and was immediately ordered to take on board-guns, gun-carriages and munitions to reinforce Ship Island, Major-General Twiggs and Captain Higgins and Major Smith using every possible effort to get everything in readiness. The steamer Gray Cloud was also taken into requisition, and was loaded and got under way on Monday ned, and the battle commenced in good earnest. The Gray Cloud coming up slowly, the Oregon took off her ammunition and proceeded at once to the scene of action Major Smith directing the Gray Cloud to follow at a safe distance. Having arrived at the island, Capt. Myers proceeded at once in his yawl, with Major Smith, with a loMajor Smith, with a load of shell and powder, being received with cheers by Capt. Thom, of the C. S. marines, and the sailors and soldiers, who at once carried the supplies to the batteries. The enemy had fired some thirty-odd rounds of shell and round shot, which sank in the sand, and were used by our gallant sailors in returning fire. The explosion