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m Queen of the West, having the gunboat De Soto and a <*> in company, ran Feb. 10. the Vicksburg batteries without injury, and thence steamed down to the mouth of Red river, thence raiding Feb. 12. down the Atchafalaya to Si<*>sport; thence returning to the Red, and going up that river to a point 15 moles above the mouth of the Black, where he captured the steamboat Era, with 4,500 bushels of corn; thence ascending the Black and Washita to Gordon's Landing, where his treacherous pilot, Garvey, ran the Queen ashore, just as she was opened on from the bank by a Rebel battery, which soon shot away her lever and escape-pipe, then cut in two her steam-pipe, filling her with scalding steam, and compelling Ellet and his crew to abandon her — she being wholly disabled and impotent — escaping on cotton-bales, and reaching the De Soto, which was just below. Going down the river, the De Soto was run into the bank and lost her rudder; when she and her barge were scuttled and burnt; Ellet an