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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
usta, and two others The Stettin and the Ottawa.—Ed. formed the northern division; the Mercedita and the Keystone State, the one of eight hundred and the other of fourteen hundred tons, were in front of the southern bar; the Memphis and the Quaker City more in the rear. On the evening of the 30th of January the whole fleet, as usual, was under steam, moored to anchor-buoys, ready to slip their cables and fall upon any blockade-runners that might happen to heave in sight. It had made an impchance for the Keystone State, for at this moment the Memphis comes to her assistance, and in spite of the enemy's projectiles succeeds in taking her in tow before the Chicora, whose movements are very slow, has been able to get up to her. The Quaker City has come in her turn to exchange shots with the Confederate rams, without allowing them to come too close to her. It is six o'clock; the day has dawned. The Augusta, having witnessed the fight from a distance, comes up at last, followed by th