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The Daily Dispatch: February 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
ed as being hitherto unknown, which I most respectfully assert to be a mistake. I was attached to the United States Navy in the capacity of Engineer up to the June of last year, and during my stay in the service several times had the above-mentioned mode of warfare been in readiness for action. In 1808 whilst attached to the steamer Fillton, in Mexico, during a revolution in that country, we were busy in the protection of our merchantmen, two or three vessels then in the harbor of Tampico. To keep the river seven miles in length,) free and open to these vessels we make it trips each day buck and forth the men being at quarters, with the guns rain out, and the hot water on hand ready in case of an attack by boarding parties. In the same year, in the same vessel, and during our difficulties with the English in the Gulf of Mexico, our Commander had occasion to board the English steam-frigate Devastation, again were we at quarters with the indispensable hot water ready for