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The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
veral times, and rendering her condition almost hopeless.--She returned our courtesies with much skill and power; and now, whilst the contest was hottest between the Minnesota, several gunboats, and the shore batteries, on their part, and the Virginia, Patrick Henry, and Jamestown, on our side, Buchanan, who had too daringly exposed his person on the elevated deck during the whole action, was wounded in the leg by a Minie ball, and was forced to go below, leaving the active command to Lieut. Catesby Jones, than whom none could be more worthy of the perilous office. Surely the Commodore must have borne a charmed life, for all this time shot of every description, from ship and shore, had passed and fallen like rain at his feet, whilst the smokestack, near which he stood, was pierced by at least two hundred balls. It was now between 5 and 6 o'clock P. M., when the Federal steamer Roanoke was seen approaching from Old Point, and following her the St. Lawrence and a large gunboat, and the