Identifier: civilwarnational00thor (find matches)
Title: The Civil War : the national view
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Thorpe, Francis Newton, 1857-1926
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Publisher: Philadelphia : George Barrie & Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ck. Here for the first time Gushing disclosed to his officersand men the purpose of his expedition, leaving them freeto go or stay as they preferred; all wanted to go with him.Several others volunteered, among them Paymaster FrancisH. Swan, whose anxiety for a fight was paid by a severewound and four months in Libby prison; W. L. Howarth,Gushings tried and trusted companion in former adventures,and two other masters mates, Thos. S. Gay and JohnWoodman; two engineer officers, Steever and Stotesbury,and eight men. A cutter from the Shamrock was taken intow with eleven men; their duty was to board the wreckof the Southfield, if the guard which was known to beposted there should discover the party as they passed. Afalse start was made on the night of the 26th; the boatran aground, and so much time was wasted in getting heroff that the expedition was postponed twenty-four hours.At midnight, in rain and storm, the devoted little party setforth. Fortune favored them at first; they passed the
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THE FOURTH TEAR OF THE WAR 433 wreck of the Southfield without a hail, and came in viewof the few lights of Plymouth. The little noise made by the low-pressure engines wasmuffled with tarpaulins, which also concealed every ray oflight from the launch. Gushing stood near the bow, con-nected by lines with every part of the boat as the brain isby nerves with every limb. He held a line by which he wasto detach the torpedo from the spar which carried it, whenit should have been shoved under the overhang of the ram;another, by which he was to explode it after it had floatedup to a point of contact; and two more, one attached tohis wrist and one to the ankle of the engineer, by whichhe directed the movements of the boat. He had two com-plete plans in his mind; one was—to use his own nervousphrase—to take the Albemarle alive, by landing some dis-tance below, stealing up, and dashing on her from the wharf;but just as he was sheering close to the lower wharf heheard a dog bark, a sentry hai

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