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The Daily Dispatch: June 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], Firing on the river. (search)
un in reply, which was done by pulling the lanyard from below, the operator not showing himself. One of Captain F guns (a 10-pounder Parrott, captured at Mana ) bursted at the third discharge, whereby one of men lost his right arm, and Lieut. Robertson was very slightly bruised in the mouth. The brave fellow where arm was broken, (Wm. D. Jackson, of Stafford,) while the Surgeon was amputating it, held up the other, remarking, "Thank God I have one yet left to fight the Yankees with" This battery is the same that harassed the enemy so much last winter on the lower Potomac, under its then Captain (now Colonel) John R. Cook, completely blockading the river in the vicinity of Boy Hole, and in one instance, sinking a schooner transport at the distance of two miles from the guns. The men are from the old county of Stafford, are support fellows, know their business, and, with their house and families in possession of the foe, will lose no opportunity to lay a heavy hand upon him.