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profiAprictby Plt; Burke, a private .111 Co. 13, icred 8ih Missouri Infantry, who “wanted (OjP!o,J see the. fun,” and he saw it; he savs that j — he has been in eight battles, and this was ! T the heaviest, fire lia has ever faced. The i crew of the Silver Wave were all Sul- |new diers, except the captain; liis name is ; wht* McMullen. Of the Henry Clay’s crew, I Che I was only acquainted with the pilot, jPr.ICI John Taylor, formerly of Aurora. | p.ietJI said we started at 9:30 P. M., diegun boats, under the immedia'e command _of Admiral Porter, in the lead, the whole fleet drifting slowly down thejVJ river. When within a mile of the upper battery the pickets gave the alarm, and j un soon the signals at the different batteries gave notice that they were prepared for us. The ball soon opened, and the rush of the solid shot and the screeching of the shells, mingled with the roar of the cannon, made awful music for our civilian ears. Still we got along pretty well until just as we turned the point, when •the rebels set fire to a frame house on the Louisiana side, which lighted up the river as bright as day. They were thus enabled to distinguish between the gun boats and the transports, and they soon began to tell. A shot look away a part of our pilot wheel and cut the bell ropes communicating with the engine. Thus disabled, the boat swung around with her bow upstream; butCapt. Conway, learning what was the matter, gave his orders .•through the speaking trumpet, and soon rgot her headed down stream again. Just then the whistle of the Henry Clav .sounded, and looking in that direction, I saw her enveloped,in smoke and steam.This is the last we saw of her, as she burned in a few minutes. I learned sub -■ICAuf;icWotceivin hiis ci busii youWeCT.(WeWeof
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Aurora Commercial
Aurora, Indiana, US
Thu, Apr 30, 1863
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