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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
e. The early part of this year, which had already seen such a bad beginning in these waters by the capture of Galveston and the loss of the Hatteras, was destined to bring about nothing but disasters to the Federal squadron. Two sailing vessels, the Morning Light and the Velocity, blockaded the entrance of the port of Sabine in Sabine Pass. The Confederates had fitted out at this port two river-steamers, which they had surrounded with walls constructed of bales of cotton. About the 20th of January, taking advantage of a dead calm, these steamers boldly put out to sea to attack the Federal ships, which the absence of wind had doomed to immobility; a few raking shots were sufficient to compel them to surrender. But, being unable to bring them back into port in consequence of their draft of water, they were obliged to set them on fire on the 23d, in order to keep them from the steamships that Commodore Bell had sent for the purpose of recapturing them. Two months later, as we wi