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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), How the Confederacy changed naval Warfare. (search)
She was again raised and made ready for action, and Lieutenant Dixon, Twenty-first Alabama Regiment, and eight Confederate soldiers got permission to attack the Housatonic, a fine new corvette, just come down to join the fleet off Charleston. Dixon was a Kentuckian. He was moved by high principle in making this venture. He hae part in the construction of this vessel, had caused other men to perish in her by dangers he had not shared, and now bravely demanded this opportunity. The Housatonic lay close inshore, on soundings. The torpedo, submerged, reached and struck her, tearing off, as her captain reported, the whole stern of his ship, which sanhout losing a man. The torpedo disappeared forever. Several years after the war, wreckers were sent down by our Government, in submarine armor, to wreck the Housatonic. They reported the torpedo boat to be lying on the sea's bottom, about one hundred feet from her victim. The crew had all, no doubt, been concussed, and, as