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Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, April, 1863. (search)
ly under flag of truce, they would likewise have been taken. After the Harriet Lane had been captured, she was fired into by the other ships; and Major Smith told me that, his blood being up, he sent the ex-master of the Harriet Lane to Commodore Renshaw, with a message that, unless the firing was stopped, he would massacREE the captured crew. After hearing this, Commodore Renshaw blew up his ship, with himself in her, after having given an order to the remainder, sauve qui peut. 13thCommodore Renshaw blew up his ship, with himself in her, after having given an order to the remainder, sauve qui peut. 13th April, 1863 (Monday). I breakfasted with General Bee, and took leave of all my Brownsville friends. McCarthy is to give me four times the value of my gold in Confederate notes. The value of Confederate paper has since decreased. At Charleston I was offered six to one for my gold, and at Richmond eight to one. We left Brownsville for San Antonio at 11 A. M. Our vehicle was a roomy, but rather overloaded, fourwheel carriage, with a canvas roof, and four mules. Besides McCarthy, t
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, May, 1863. (search)
ly opened fire in the dark upon the Yankee war vessels at a range of about one hundred yards; but so heavy (though badly directed) was the reply from the ships, that the field-pieces had to be withdrawn. The attack by Colonel Cook upon a Massachusetts regiment fortified at the end of a wharf, also failed, and the Confederates thought themselves badly whipped. But after daylight the fortunate surrender of the Harriet Lane to the cotton-boat Bayou City, and the extraordinary conduct of Commodore Renshaw, converted a Confederate disaster into the recapture of Galveston. General Magruder certainly deserves immense credit for his boldness in attacking a heavily armed naval squadron with a few field-pieces and two river steamers protected with cotton bales and manned with Texan cavalry soldiers. I rode with Colonel Debray to examine Forts Scurry, Magruder, Bankhead, and Point. These works have been ingeniously designed by Colonel Sulokowski (formerly in the Austrian army), and they