...u, the gallant Semmes, to prevent her recovery by the enemy, after landing his crew applied the torch to her, and she blew up soon after. The pilot who was detailed from Faries's battery for the Diana after she became a Confederate gunboat, and the pilot who escaped when she was captured from the Federals, both occupied the pilothouse of the steamer W. S. Pike, a Bayou Sara packet, some thirteen y...