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The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
prime an immense amount of lumber, &c. The crews of the three boats set to work to finish the undertaking, and we have brought away probably 250,000 feet of the best quality of ship and building lumber, all the iron, machinery, spikes, plating, nafis, &c., belonging to the rebel gunboats, and I caused the mill to be destroyed, where the lumber had bean sawed. Lieutenant Commanding Gwen had, in our absence, enlisted some twenty-five Tennessee, who gave information of the encampment of Colonel Drew's rebel regiment at Savannah, Tennessee. A portion of the six or seven hundred men were known to be pressed men, and all were hardly armed. After consultation with Lieutenants Commanding Gwen and Smith, I determined to make load attach upon the encampment. Lieutenant Commanding Smith, with thirty riflemen, came on board the Conestoga, leaving his vessel to guard the Eastport, and, accom panied by the Taylor, we preceded up to that place, prepared to land one hundred and thirty ri