Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Capt. McCauley” in chapter 30 of Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I.:
...se to blow up the dry dock, and ordered trains to be laid instead, so that, at a signal, the ships might be fired.
This was accordingly done; but the previous partial submersion of the ships, under Capt. McCauley 's unaccountable order to scuttle them, of course prevented their destruction.
Thus, when the Plymouth was reached in its turn by Lieut. Wise, she had sunk below her upper deck, so flooding the trai...
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