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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.10 (search)
unding impact, and at the same instant the men whose backs were against the shield were split in pieces. I saw their limbs and chests, severed and mangled, scattered about the deck, their hearts lying near their bodies. All of the gun's crew and the admiral were covered from head to foot with blood, flesh and viscera. I thought at first that the admiral was mortally wounded. The fragments and members of the dead men were shoveled up, put in buckets and hammocks, and struck below. Engineer Rogers, of the wounded, had a pistol ball through his shoulder. How in the world did you manage to get this? I asked him. He replied: Why, I was off watch and had nothing to do, so while the Hartford was lying alongside of us a Yankee cursed me through the port-hole and I jabbed him with my bayonet in the body, and his comrade shot me with his revolver. Cutting the ball out, I proposed to give him morphine, as he was suffering terribly, but he said: None of that for me, doctor. When we go
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.29 (search)
shed to the military authorities by the Registrar, accompanied by the following resolution by the Vestry: Resolved, That the Vestry of this Church disclaim any intention, in permitting the erection of the memorial window lately placed therein, to give any offence to any person or persons attending upon the services of the Church. (Signed) J. H. D. Wingfield, Associate Rector. Arthur Emmerson, Registrar. Monday, May 5th, 1868. The naval officers who made complaint were Captain C. P. R. Rogers, Captain Pattison, Captain George H. Cooper, Chief Engineer Newell, and Lieutenant Marine Corps Hammersly. The cause of complaint was the offensive word invasion in the inscription. To appease said complainants, the Rector caused the inscription to be covered out of sight, but without the desired effect; whereupon, the aged pastor of the Church concluded that the best way to preserve the peace would be to take the window out; which was accordingly done. Meanwhile an order came