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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.8 (search)
A daring exploit.
[from the Richmond Dispatch, January 17, 1897.]
The capture of the steamer Saint Nicholas. Commodore Hollins' account.
At 6 o'clock A. M., June 18, 1861, I left Baltimore on the Mary Washington, a steamboat running to the Patuxent.
On landing at one of the landings on the river, I went to the plantation of Mr. S., where I suggested the idea (which originated entirely with myself), of seizing the Saint Nicholas, a boat running between Baltimore and Washington, and manning her with volunteers, and then to take the Pawnee, a United States steamer commanded by Yankee Ward, and which was a great annoyance to the boats on the Potomac.
I was told that the plan could not be carried out, as there were so many Union men about; that it must be certainly discovered before it could be executed.
Finding I could not act there, I crossed the Potomac in an open boat pulled by four negroes.
On reaching the Virginia side, I went to the residence of Dr. Howe (Hooe), about
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The laying of the corner-stone of the monument to President Jefferson Davis