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The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1863., [Electronic resource], Expedition to the lower Rappahannock —— capture of two Yankee gunboats. (search)
llantry and rapid movements of the men under Lieut. Wood, and finally yielded, surrendering the boats, crews, guns, and everything pertaining to the vessels. In the fight we had three men wounded, including Lt. Hoge and Midshipman Cook. The enemy had one killed--a negro — and six or seven wounded. Lt. Hoge was severely wounded in the neck in a hand-to-hand fight with the Captain of the Reliance. The Captain was also wounded. The armament of the Reliance consisted of one 32 pound Parrott gun and a 24 pound howitzer; that of the Satellite of a 32-pound smooth-bore gun and a 12-pound howitzer. Their crews numbered 40 men each. They had no opportunity of firing their heavy guns, our men being too close to them when the alarm was given. Among the captured were seven negroes, who, with the rest of the prisoners, are expected to reach Richmond as soon as they can be brought. Our informant left the boats on Sunday morning at Urbana, on the Rappahannock river, and it is pro