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The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], From Sherman's rear. (search)
o down rather than lower her flag, and whose only care, as they swam for life, was that their Commander should not fall into the enemy's hands, cannot bring a blush on the check of their country. One of them, the lower part of whose arm was shattered, cut it off with his knife and continued at his gun; another, with a mortal wound, kept on at his work; another, in bleeding under his death blow' refused to admit that he had been struck, and fought on till he fell dead on deck. The surgeon, Lewellen, showed a lofty heroism worthy of his royal name. It was not the fault of such men that a weaker vessel could not overpower a stronger one. If they had got on board the Kearsarge's decks, and had failed in five minutes to have swept her from stem to stern, the Herald might have had some reason for its exultation. Besides, in another war with the United States, England is not going to fight her in such ships as the Alabama, or in any ships which will permit the Yankees to indulge their fa