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The Daily Dispatch: July 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], The loss of the Alabama. (search)
d over her boilers; but, unfortunately for that lie, Captain Winston himself, in a letter to the London News, admits the fact, and the further fact that the plating was concealed by plank, though this he says was done to keep out the dirt. A Cherbourg correspondent of the New York Herald, who has visited the hospitals and conversed with the Confederate and Federal wounded, sends that paper the following: Account of the fight from a Sailor on the Alabama. We came to Cherbourg from Cape Town to be paid off and for the purpose of making repairs. --The greater part of our copper was off the bottom. Our boilers were in a very leaky state. Our pay as able seamen was four pound ten a month, and we were paid off yesterday. We had received permission to go into the dock to repair, when we heard that the Kearsarge was outside. We came in here ship-rigged, and so disguised that had we met the Kearsarge outside we intended to take her by surprise. We fully expected having a fight w