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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: (search)
Palmetto State and Chicora, made a brilliant attack on the blockading squadron on the early morning of January 31st. The Palmetto State was commanded by Lieut.-Com. John Rutledge, and the Chicora by Capt. J. R. Tucker. The Palmetto State carried Commodore Ingraham's flag. Waiting for a full tide in order to cross the bar with s day and passed over at 4:30 a. m., the Palmetto State leading. The plan of attack was to engage the enemy at close quarters and sink his vessels by ramming. Rutledge encountered the United States steamer Mercedita immediately after crossing, took her by surprise, rammed and sunk her. The Chicora encountered a schooner-rigged r and with her consort, a propeller, quickly engaged. The larger vessel struck, being on fire, but after Captain Tucker ceased his fire, she ran off. Meanwhile, Rutledge was vainly endeavoring to bring others to close quarters. The ironclads were slow, and except when taking the enemy by surprise they were at a disadvantage. Se
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
After his graduation young Grimball sailed to the Mediterranean on the flagship Macedonian, and remained two years in those waters. Then returning home, he resigned upon the secession of his State and tendered her his services. He was on duty at Fort Moultrie when the Star of the West was fired upon and compelled to abandon the attempt to victual Fort Sumter. Subsequently he was commissioned first lieutenant Confederate States navy, and assigned to the Lady Davis, under command of Capt. John Rutledge, with which he participated in the defense of Port Royal and other encounters. From the Lady Davis he was transferred as first lieutenant to the ram Arkansas, built on the Yazoo river, near Greenwood, Miss., during the Federal operations against Vicksburg, under the command of Lieut. Isaac N. Brown. He and Lieut. G. W. Gift commanded the eight-inch columbiads and the two forward broadside guns on this vessel during her memorable trip down the Yazoo into the Mississippi, and through