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October 30th (search for this): chapter 82
ll. These are perilous times, and the future very uncertain. I must mention that on one of the vessels which attacked us was a lieutenant who was in the Mediterranean with us. How soon he has become our mortal enemy, and an enemy to the flag he once swore to defend! I must now close, and should this be my last, I trust you will have the satisfaction to hear that your son fell at his post doing his duty. Affectionately, your son, Joseph. --Wilkes' Barre (Pa.) Record of the Times, Oct. 30. Rebel account of the fight. The New Orleans Crescent of the 14th of October gives the following account of the attack: On Friday night, about twelve o'clock, the little fleet left the forts in the following order: The Manassas leading the way, with orders to go right in among the fleet, and run down the first vessel she could get at, sending up a rocket at the instant she made an attack. Then came the Tuscarora, and the tow-boat Watson with the five barges in tow; these had order
October 14th (search for this): chapter 82
hat on one of the vessels which attacked us was a lieutenant who was in the Mediterranean with us. How soon he has become our mortal enemy, and an enemy to the flag he once swore to defend! I must now close, and should this be my last, I trust you will have the satisfaction to hear that your son fell at his post doing his duty. Affectionately, your son, Joseph. --Wilkes' Barre (Pa.) Record of the Times, Oct. 30. Rebel account of the fight. The New Orleans Crescent of the 14th of October gives the following account of the attack: On Friday night, about twelve o'clock, the little fleet left the forts in the following order: The Manassas leading the way, with orders to go right in among the fleet, and run down the first vessel she could get at, sending up a rocket at the instant she made an attack. Then came the Tuscarora, and the tow-boat Watson with the five barges in tow; these had orders to set fire to the barges the moment they saw the rocket from the Manassas.
October 12th (search for this): chapter 82
ouse-top, for a while, but to-day nothing of this can be seen excepting the dent above mentioned. The accident which happened to her machinery disabled her propeller, and she was, consequently, almost unmanageable, yet it was not of a nature to require more than a day or two to repair. She went into dock yesterday afternoon at Algiers. If that accident had not occurred, she undoubtedly would have sunk the whole of the enemy's fleet. Abstract of the log of U. S. Ship-of-war Preble. October 12, eight to twelve, midnight: Saw a large fire inland, bearing W. by N. Twelve to four A. M.: At three thirty saw a very suspicions object drifting down the river. Beat to quarters. Our movements detected. It went toward the Richmond, under her port bow, emitting huge volumes of black smoke. Afterward the object moved up the river and stopped abeam of this ship. About twenty-five fathoms distance to them we opened our port battery and fired into it. She then moved apparently uninjured u
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