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The Daily Dispatch: June 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Chattanooga. (search)
threw the how of the Beauregard into the wheel of the Price; thus she was disabled by her friend, the Beauregard, and went to the bank. The fatality on the Beauregard must have been very great, thinks our informant, as the enemy's shot passed completely through her bulk head into her boilers, and the steam rushed the full length of the boat. There was no troops in Memphis as the time of the engagement. Our informant left on the last train about nine o'clock A. M., on which Gen. Ruggles took his departure for Grenada. When this train passed the bridge near the city it was burnt by his order. Capt. Gordon was sent out by Com. Montgomery with the first boat to pick up the wounded and those who were attempting to escape by swimming from the sinking boats, and our informant with the second boat when he was shelled and graped, tearing away the stern of his boat, which did not, however, render it unnavigable. Mr. Reeder has no doubt of the safety of the Commodore, a