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The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Sailor and the actress. (search)
ose in command of her desired at our hands. I was on her decks before seven o'clock Saturday morning--as early, I understood, as I was expected. The programme was then changed by those who seemed to be in command of the steamer. I was then asked for one hundred armed men to defend the steamer in her passage to the Rappahannock, which were tendered, and in a few minutes were on the spot. The requisition was then changed, and arms alone were asked for, which were given to Lieuts. Linn and Thorburn, of the Navy, who had twenty seamen under their command, and who had been associated with the Tennesseeans, together with ten or fifteen naval officers, from the time of our leaving Fredericksburg, most of whom went aboard the St. Nicholas and were present at the capture of the other prizes. The Tennesseeans were kept at Cone creek to defend the St. Nicholas, if chased in by the steamers of the enemy. We were not ordered to leave our camps until ten o'clock Thursday night, and at one