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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 12.92 (search)
. In winding, the Alabama presented the port battery, with only. two guns bearing, and showed gaping sides, through which the water washed. The Kearsarge pursued, William Smith, quartermaster of the Kearsarge Ani Captain of the after pivot-gun, which it was said inflicted the most damage on the Alabama, from a photograph taken in 1864. keeping on a line nearer the shore, and with a few well-directed shots hastened the sinking. Then the Alabama was at our mercy. Her colors were James R. Wheeler, Acting Master of the Kearsarge, in charge of the forward pivot-gun. From a photograph of the officers taken in 1864. struck, and the Kearsarge ceased firing. I was told by our prisoners that two of the junior officers swore they would never surrender, and in a mutinous spirit rushed to the two port guns and opened fire upon the Kearsarge. [See page 610.] Captain Winslow, amazed at this extraordinary conduct of an enemy who had hauled down his flag in token of surrender, exclaimed,