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The Daily Dispatch: July 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Impossibility of Johnston saving Vicksburg (search)
teries and gunboats, explosion succeeding explosion so rapidly that the thunders of Heaven itself appeared to have broken loose; but fortunately slight damage was done, and the expedition returned, with but few casualties to mar its success. One of the most brilliant episodes of the affair was a fight with a gunboat, supposed to be the Pawnee. She was lying in the Stone river, some distance to the right of the scene of action, when suddenly Lieut.-Col. Del Kemper, with a section of Capt. Blake's battery, and a section of Capt. Wharton's Chatham artillery, of Savannah — in all four Napoleon guns — dashed up the avenue leading to Grimball's house, entered the garden, unlimbered, at a distance of three hundred yards, and hurled three shots, one after the other, through the wooden sides. The Pawnee then responded; but by the time we had fired ten or twelve times the gunboat had got up steam and started down the river. Whether she was materially disabled or not I am unable to say;