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Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: operations against Charleston. (search)
e at hand for their rescue. As the reader will have already observed, the Stono River was frequently a scene of contention between batteries and gunboats; again on Christmas day, at 6 A. M., we find an attack made on the Marblehead, Lieutenant-Commanding Meade. The vessel was at anchor near Legareville, and the batteries were on John's Island. The engagement lasted an hour and a half, with the loss of three killed and four wounded; the hull of the vessel was struck twenty times, and the rier Freeman, having a fair wind, came up several miles and opened on the enemy, who abandoned two disabled guns, a dying man, intrenching tools, etc. The carriages were destroyed afterward, and two Viii-inch sea-coast howitzers were brought off by Meade. Under instructions from the Department on January 28th, the admiral summarized the services of the ironclads under his command. He says: The vessels thus shared fully with the army in the operation that led to the abandonment of the wo
q. Mahaska, the, 131, 146 et seq. Mahopac, the, 221, 229 Malvern, the, 231 Maple Leaf, the, U. S. transport, 146 Maps: Roanoke Island, 180; Newbern, 191 Maratanza, the, 218, 228, 242 Marblehead, the, U. S. vessel, 71, 129 et seq., 145 Marchand, Commander, 67 Marion, the, U. S. transport, 49 Martin, Colonel, 169 Massasoit, the, 211 Mather, Acting-Master, 60 Mattabesett, the, 204, 206 et seq., 209 Maumee, the, 228 Maxwell, Lieutenant, 172 Meade, Lieutenant-Commanding, 145 Mediterranean, our ships in the. 7 Memphis, the, U. S. vessel, 76, 80, et seq., 148 Mercedita, the, U. S. vessel, disaster to, 74 et seq., 81 Mercer, Captain, Samuel, 165 Mercer, General, 56 Merrimac, the, 82, 111, 204 Miami, the, 300 et seq., 208, 210 Miller, Lieutenant H. W., 18 Mingoe, the, 152 Minnesota, the, U. S. frigate, 7, 165 et seq., 217, 221, 223 et seq., 228, 230, 232 Mississippi, the, U. S. steamer, 7 Mitchell