...in the Confederacy. That night Cushing started off on the expedition, towing the Otsego's cutter with an armed crew, who were to be employed in seizing the Confederate lookouts on board of the late United States steamer Southfield, which lay below Plymouth with her decks just above water. The ram lay about 8 miles from the mouth of the river, which was 200 or 300 yards in width and supposed to be lined w...