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The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Loss of a Confederate Cotton steamer. (search)
xertions they were enabled to obtain a fire, and it was made along side of a tree, the trunk of which, during the night, was burnt through, and a heavy wind prostrated it, injuring the following persons: Peter Faithful, 3rd Assistant Engineer, skull dangerously fractured; Chas, Smith, seaman, left side of cheek out slightly; Adolphus Moore, cabin boy, (colored,) leg fractured. The wounded having been taken care of, the party at daylight put to sea, and at 19 o'clock made the inlet to St. Catherine Sound. After getting about half a mile inside the mouth of the Sound a Yankee gunboat, schooner rigged propeller, mounting a pivot gun fore and aft and a broadside gun, discovered them and fired a blank cartridge. The men in the coats put all strength to their cars to make their escape. Five minutes after the Yankee blockader fired her blank cartridge she opened her broadside gun on the unfortunate men, firing twenty-seven rounds of shot, shell, and canister. The course of the boat were