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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 54: (search)
At eleven A. M., a ship was discovered through the smoke, bearing down on the Brunswick's larboard quarter, having her gangways and rigging crowded with men, as if with the intention of releasing the Vengeur, [a prize made by the Brunswick,] by boarding the Brunswick. Instantly the men stationed at the five aftermost lower-deck Brunswick. Instantly the men stationed at the five aftermost lower-deck guns, on the starboard side, were turned over on the larboard side; and to each of the latter guns, already loaded with a single 32-pounder, was added a double-headeas the ship, advanced to within musket-shot; when five or six rounds from the Brunswick's after-guns, on each deck, brought down by the board the former's only remaing the slightest resistance; and, after a few unreturned broadsides from the Brunswick, the French ship struck her colors. It was, however, wholly out of the BrunsBrunswick's power to take possession, and the Achille very soon rehoisted her colors, and setting her sprit-sail endeavored to escape. The escape, however, was preven