Confederate sailors under James Duke boarded the Union steam tug Boston by ruse and quickly overpowered the crew as she was towing the Jenny Lind near the Pass á la Outre Lighthouse. They cut loose the tow and made for Mobile, Alabama. On the way, they met the loaded New York barks Lennox and Texana, captured and burned them. The Boston arrived safely in Mobile with seventeen prisoners on June 11, 1863. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Jack Sweetman, American Naval History: An Illustrated Chronology of the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps ... (Annapolis,MD: Naval Institute Press, 2002), 72.
Frank Moore, ed., The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives, Illustrative Incidents, Poetry, Etc. (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1864), VII: 290.
Frank Moore, ed., The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives, Illustrative Incidents, Poetry, Etc. (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1864), VII: 290.
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Battles/Soldiers