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The Daily Dispatch: February 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Another movement of the enemy from the Peninsula. (search)
poor fellows had to swim from the shore to where she lay in the stream, and in doing this many yielded up their lives to the merciless foe, who shot them as they were really drowning. Upon reaching the boat Captain Lee found its commander, Capt. Rowe, severely wounded in the throat. The engineer was also seriously wounded, and out of a crew of about fifty there were left aboard hardly a half dozen men who were not disabled. At the request of Capt Rowe, Capt. Lee took command of the boat. Capt Rowe, Capt. Lee took command of the boat. He found her to be greatly damaged from the fire of the enemy. The pilot house was entirely demolished. The wheel could not be worked, and it was with much difficulty that the engine could be gotten to move sufficiently to propel her further out into the stream from the ranges of the rebel guns. Firing was continued, and about three o'clock a shell from the enemy entered the boiler of the boat, and a great explosion followed. Resistance could no longer be continued, as the boat was now