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The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Loss of a Confederate Cotton steamer. (search)
twenty-seven rounds of shot, shell, and canister. The course of the boat were put north and across the inlet. The third boat, which was in the rear, and distant from the others about half a mile, was cut off and compelled to surrender. The following were in the boat captured: Peter Faithful, 3d Assistant Engineer; Wm. Smith, Master's Mate; ex-officer Dr. Chas. M. Moffat, Assistant Surgeon; Peter Vandiver, 1st Assistant Engineer; Isaac Patten, Paymaster's Clerk; Mr. Kelly, Nassau Pilot; Chas Smith, and nine of the seamen and firemen. On Thursday at 10 o'clock the two boats that escaped with their crews arrived at Kilkenny. Major E. C. Anderson, Jr., commanding the post, kindly received them.--The whole garrison were unceasing in their efforts to make comfortable Lieut. Johnston and his crew, who had had nothing to cat from the time they abandoned the Sconce until they arrived at Kilkenny. The cargo of the Oconee was valued at $75,000 and the steamer at $50,000, all owned
Prison record. --At Castle Thunder yesterday were the following commitments: John A. Wasser, charged with selling a Government horse and being a suspicious character; G. Werner and Henry Vonberger, Yankees, P. Drourey, co B, 7th Ala; J D White, co E, 13th Ala; W W Smith co D, 44th Ala; Andrew Stimes, King and Queen; H O Godwin, co I, 8th Ga. At the Libby Prison five Yankees were received from Knoxville, Tenn., four from the 1st N. Y. cavalry, captured at Berryville, Va., Aug. 22; one from the 6th Ohio cavalry, captured at Orleans, Va., Aug. 25.
h they were confined was on Cary street, directly opposite Castle Thunder, although all persons confined in both are under the supervision of the same officers. From Lieut. Wilburn who was on duty at the time, we obtained the following list of those who made good their exit from the prison: Wm. C. Williams, Frank Shepherd, K. Lent, John Criner, Wallace Edson, H. H. Parker, Henry Bradburg, G. W. Danner, Geo. Scott, Philip Smith, Chas. Williams, Patrick McAnally, Arthur Hill, Geo. Gaillard, Chas Smith, Wm. May, Thos. Brown, and Mann Clark. Their mode of escape was by removing some bricks from under the sill of the door to the second story of the building. Running in a line with the floor of this story is a wide platform, on which a sentinel is constantly posted; and when we consider that their means of egress was so near the guardsman as to almost scrape his feet, it does not speak well for his vigilance that the enterprise was so successful. A prisoner in the same room with those wh