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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 7.51 (search)
our swam to Fort Morgan where they were made prisoners, and ten, including Ensign Zettick and John Collins, the pilot, were rescued by Acting-Ensign Nields. It is to the statement of Collins that theCollins that the world is indebted for the account of that heroic act which will forever be associated with Craven's name. Commodore Parker thus tells the story: Craven and Mr. John Collins, the pilot of the TeMr. John Collins, the pilot of the Tecumseh, met, as their vessel was sinking beneath them, at the foot of the ladder leading to the top of the turret. . . . It may be, then, that Craven, in the nobility of his soul,--for all know he waseril; he drew back. After you, pilot, said he, grandly. There was nothing after me, relates Mr. Collins; when I reached the upmost round of the ladder, the vessel seemed to drop from under me. editors. The pilot, John Collins, and a few men who were in the turret jumped into the water and were rescued by a boat from the Metacomet, which, under charge of Acting Ensign Henry C. Nields, rowed up