'twas hard to say where in thunder all the licks came from.
Very soon the Congress ran ashore—purposely, I suppose, to save herself from such a fate as the Cumberland—and we had not given her many shots before she hauled down the Stars and Stripes and soon afterwards hoisted the while flag at her peak.
Parker and Alexander, in the Beaufort and Raleigh, were ordered to go to her, send her men on shore, bring the officers on board, and burn the ship; but on going alongside, Pendergrast (Austin) surrendered the ship to Parker, and told him that he had too many wounded to burn the ship.
Billy told him to have the wounded removed at once; and while the Raleigh and Beaufort were at this humane work the Yankees on shore opened fire on them, killing some of their own men, among them a lieutenant.
Parker and Alexander then left her with some twenty or thirty prisoners, the fire from shore being too hot; and as Alexander backed out in the Raleigh he was fired at from the ports of the
Tennessee Regiment, died Oct. 28th, ‘63.
Alford, B. M., Assistant Surgeon, appointed by Colonel of Regiment.
15th Texas Regiment, Aug. 31, ‘63, 32d Texas Regiment.
Aills, S. Wm., Surgeon, June 30, ‘64, 6th Mississippi Regiment, Senior Surgeon Adams' Brigade.
Angell, J. W., Assistant Surgeon, June 30, ‘64, Clayton's Brigade, Hospital Corps, Sept. 30, ‘64, 36th Alabama Regiment.
Aeton, S. W., Assistant Surgeon, Nov. 30, ‘63, 30th Alabama Regiment To be dropped from the rolls.
Austin, Thos.
A., Assistant Surgeon, passed Board, July 18, ‘62. Dec. 31, 62, 2d Battalion Sharpshooters, April 8, ‘63, transferred to 41st Mississippi Regiment.
Resigned Aug. 31, 1863.
Barnett, John B., Surgeon, passed Board at Mobile, Nov. 15, ‘62, appointed by Secretary of War, Feb. 5, ‘62, to take rank from
Oct. 26, ‘61, ordered to report to General Withers headquarters,
A. T., May 22, ‘63, relieved from duty with 18th Alabama Regi ment.
Ordered to report to S. H. S
Jones, E. M., private, March 14, 1862.
Johnson, R. J., private, March 14, 1862.
Johnson, G. G., private, March 14, 1862.
Johnson, W. R., private, March 14, 1862; served until surrender.
Jackson, John A., private, March 14, 1862; served until surrender.
Johnson, T. T., commissary sergeant, March 14, 1862; served until surrender.
Joiner, M. J., private, November 3, 1863.
Jones, Thomas M., private, December 30, 1864.
Johnson, John A., private, March 14, 1862.
Johnson, Austin, private, March 14, 1862; died June 5, 1862.
Knowles, Marion, private, March 14, 1862; wounded in knee at Gaines Mill, June 27, 1862; permanently disabled.
Kendall, H. S., private, March 14, 1861; discharged November 15, 1862.
Latham, R. G., private, March 14, 1862; served until surrender.
Lumsden, H. C., private, March 14, 1862; served until surrender.
Luck, Marcellus, private, March 14, 1862; served until surrender.
Lee, Daniel E., private, November 17, 1863; sent forwar
1862; promoted surgeon.
Leitch, Thomas M., second lieutenant; exempted from service 1862.
Cocke, Edmund R., fourth captain; wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
Weymouth, John E,, first lieutenant; wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; dead.
Austin, Cornelius, second lieutenant; killed at Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
Cocke, William F., third lieutenant; killed at Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
Dobbs, Henry J., color sergeant; promoted lieutenant; wounded at Frazer's Farm, Va., 1st July, 1862.
Noa., 1st June, 1862.
Johnson, E. S.
Johnson, Howard, came as a substitute in the winter of 1861; deserted near Williamsburg, Va., May 1862; evidently a spy.
Johnson, Lyttleton T., wounded at Frayser's Farm, Va., 1st July, 1862.
Martin, Austin, killed at Manassas, Va., 21st July, 1861.
Mayo, Joseph H., transferred to Cavalry, 1862.
Mayo, William H., transferred to Cavalry, 1862; dead.
Morton, James, killed at Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
Page, William Nelson, killed at Manassas,
he house of, 27; calls on Mrs. Howe's father on New Year's Day, 32; wedding gift of, to his granddaughter, 65; fondness for music, 74; anecdotes of, 75, 76.
Astor, William B., his culture and education, 73.
Astor, Mrs. William B. (Margaret Armstrong), her recollection of Mrs. Howe's mother, 5; describes a wedding, 31; gives a dinner: her good taste, 64.
Atherstone, the Howes at, 136.
Atlantic Monthly, The, 232, 236, 280; first published the Battle Hymn of the Republic, 275.
Austin, Mrs., sings in New York, 15.
Avignon, the Howes at, 133.
Bache, Prof. A. D., at Mrs. Howe's lecture in Washington, 309.
Baez, President of Santo Domingo, calls upon the Howes, 355; invites them to a state dinner: is expelled by a revolution, 360.
Baggs, Monsignore, Bishop of Pella, presents the Howes to the Pope, 125.
Bailey, Prof. J. W., lectures on insectivorous plants, 407.
Balzac, Honore de, his works read, 58, 206.
Bancroft, George, the historian, his estimate of Heg