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vJSSrt 'SV'" Vt THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE: WASHINGTON, D. THURSDAY, MAY 12, PAGES. 'v -i MrSXX VPt AL ,11 IVIB W'W' 1 ski Copyright, 1S3S, by CHAPTER VIII. JONES TAKES A DESPERATE CHANCE. THE SHIPS FASTENED TOGETHER.

THE WORK OF A HAND-GRENADE. BOARDING THE SERAPIS CAPT. TE ARSON SURRENDERS THE RICHARD SINKS. The fight went on. Jones all (he time tratching his chance, and working his ship to close and grapple, while Pearson, with equal vigilance, tried to keep away butwn.1 badly crippled in his efforts to worn the Serapis by the tornado of musketry that swept his upper decks.

Just at this moment a considerable puff of wind on the quarter filled the Richard's sails full, all drawing, and gave her a steering way that enabled Jones to broach her sharp to on the other tack, while Pearson tried as a last refuge from closing to back his ship astern. Before she could gather stemway the poop-deck of the Hich am swung in under tne berapis jib-noom, and the latter's starboard anchor fouled the Richard's chains, the bow of the latter swinging in toward the Serapis's stern as soon as her mizzen-rigging began to take the strain of the anchor. This at last was the chance Jones had been waiting, watching and struggling for, and now that it was within his grasp he wasted no time. Calling a couple of seamen to follow him and bear a hand and others to pass down lashings, he sprang into the miz.en channels and with his own hands rove a bight and hitch around the fluke of the Serapis's anchor, passed the line over the Richard's chains." made fast and hove the slack inboard through the nea-cst quarter-deck port. As the ships tended.

Jones watched the. lashings haul taut, saw that they took the strain well, and then saw them slacken a little as the two ships settled together in their bloody embrace. Knowing then that the lashings would hold, he turned to Pierre Gerard, his favorite French sailor and Orderly, who had followed him into the mizzen channels, and exclaimed: "Ah, Pierre, mon brave, tout va bien! Explanation of Plan of -Battle. The ship with shaded deck represents the Bon Homme Richard; the one with the white deck the Serapis. The point of first lire between the two was about six miles olT Flamboro Head, a i ffui.

a a juue noriii oi t-usi irom max proniuniory, and aliout 10 or 12 miles southeast from the town of Scarboro. lie time was about 7 15 p. m. lie wind was west-northwest and light, the sea smooth, and there was a full moon. Boih ships were on the same tack, course almost due north, which brought them rlose-hauled, the wind being forward of the beam.

The Richard had the wealher-gage. a pronounced advantage in fighting close-hauled. Position No. 1. Pearson hails Jones and the latter responds with his broadside; their distance apart being but little more than a cable's length say, 200 or 200 yards.

They then range along together for about two and a half or three miles, broadsiding rapidly, until about 8 :50 p. they n-aoh. Pov'tion No. 2. At this point Pearson, finding his ship a smarter sailer, quicker worker, and more weatherly than the Richard, concluded that ho could, by crowding sail, forercach enough to lulf athwart Jones's hawser, rake him, then shoot clear and come to on the other tack, which would give him the weather-gage.

Success in this manuver would enable him to choose his distance, and as he had discovered from the shot that came on board that the Richard had only 12-pounders, he desired a little more distance in order to make the superior weight of his 18-pound- i A. ofJuLJ ejuwone5; pur OrctNawIhfcro. By Augustus C.Buetl. Augustus C. Ihiell.

En fin jc le tiens; cet enfant dc garce anglois! Sacrcr-r-re nom de Dicu, il nepeut pas m'echapper (Reminiscences of Nathaniel Fanning also Memoir du Combat by Pierre Gerard, Paris, 1780.) Under ordinary circumstances Paul Jones was of cleanly tongue and decorous phrase, alike in English and in French; exceptionally so for a sea Captain of those days. His fierce expletive here may have been intended to encourage the men around him, uttered as it was in the patois of his half-French forecastle, "but it I no doubt expressed somefceling of Ins own. Doubtless a volume of pent-up agony of soul found vent in that savage phrase. To close and grapple was his last hope, because heretofore his foe had bccii hammering him to death by inches. Therefore this incident restored hope to a hopeless ficht.

Those who indulge in the masculine sport of the dog-pit have often seen a brave little bull-terrier struggle and struggle as the under dog with silent fortitude, his strength gradually ebbing with his blood until hardly anything was left of him but his dead-game heart, when suddenly, whether by accident or by generalship, he got a chance to throttle, and then, as the little fellow felt his teeth sink into the neck of his stronger foe, they have heard a low chuckling growl of content ooze out of the corners of his mouth as he closed his jaws, as if to say: "I've got him at last!" At this point the battle between the Richard and the Serapis had become a I fi'jht c-f bull-docs, in which the Richard had been under-dog from the start, and now. at last, she had her enemy by the throat! THE DEATH GRAPPLE. Finding that his grapple would hold, Jones instantly adapted his tactics to the new situation. He ordered the main battery to be abandoned, leaving only men enough on the gun-declc to fight the fire that was raging there and guard the hatches to keep down the prisoners con- fined below. I I men were brouir with musket CTS son tell more effectively In compari- However, Pearson miscalculated either his own distance or the way the Richard had, and so when the Serapis came into the wind with her luff she lost way and the Richard forcing un.

he saw that she would foul him bows on about i- iniusiups oom courses were' neiu. iol wishing to be foultjd or grappled, Per now box-hauled his ship on her heel, 'carson which produced Position No. 3. Here the Richard ran her forebooms over the taff-rail and into the miz.en rigging of the and Jones threw grapnels into the latter's mizzen backstays; but as the Serapis rapidly fell off the lines parted and the ships quickly cleared. Pearson now let the Serapis fall off, waiting for the Richard to range up abeam again, which she soon did, produc- Position No.

4. -The time was now about 9 20. the action had lasted an hour and three quarters, and the ships had traversed about five miles from Position No. 1. Broadsiding was now resumed at about a cable's length, and the two ships sailed or drifted for half an hour, tho Richard gradually sagging toward the Serapis with leeway until Position No.

5 was reached, about 10 p.m. and about seven miles from Position No. 1. At this point Jones finding that his 12-pounder battery was no match for the 18-pounders of the enemy, and that tho Richard was, as he said to Lieut. Dale, being "hammered to pieces," resolved to close with Pearson at once, and so wore snip, winch soon produced Position No.

6, ui which the Richard made available by this order (lcck of Richard some of the Americans lit to -the urner deck, armed wno. ec.nc uie maintop alter auan- pikes, or pistols, and mus- aonsnP iiicirsniroun inemain-iiecK oaury, terea ready for boarding; a few beingsent into the main and foretops; while what remained of tho French marines were formed on the Richard's high poop-deck, whence their musketry commanded the forecastle and waist of the Serapis so completely that the latter's upper decks were wholly untenable. At this moment Pearson hailed to inquire of Jones if he had struck. This was natural enough, as firing had totally ceased from the Richard's main battery, her ensign gaff had been shot away, the flag was trailing in the water over the stern, and her upper decks presented a scene of great confusion. Jones himself in his official report to Dr.

Franklin, says: "The English Commodore now hailed to ask if I demanded quarter, and I answered the hail with the most determined negative." Pierre Gerard, who was Jones's Orderly of tho day, and of course was with him all the time, says in his "Memoirs de Combat: "Ence moment eric 1c Capitain anglais avez vous amene votre pavilion? anquel lerocement a repondu lc commodore Jones: 'Non, je vals a 1' instant commencer le As answered Pearson in English the above is, of course, Pierre Gerard's translation of it into French. Nathaniel Fanning says: "The En'glish commander now hailed, to ask if we had surrendered; to which our commander replied, "No; I've just begun to thrill!" Capt Pearson in his official report, made after he was exchanged, says: "I did not hear the answer distinctly, but one of my Midshipmen did, and told me what it was; the reply of a man desperate enough to sink with his ship along-side." Pearson, however, in his statement before the court-martial which tried him fpr losing his ship, says he "heard this reply, but for the moment persisted in thinking it were bravado," etc. A DESPERATE MANUVER. To any seaman it will be at once apparent that Jones's manuver of wearing around the bows of his enemy was a most daring and desperate resort. If he failed to cross he would be no better off than before.

If he crossed too far the Serapis would in her turn cross his stern and rake him; and not only that, but she would also cain the weather rtipc. on the. imnosite tack fnm imf T1.1. nnmnfiniln'nJv dull sailing and slow handling would prevent her from ever retraining her advantage. The Serapis would then have chosen her position, when her heavy hammering must have sunk or rather have finished the sinking of the Richard inside of hour.

ins was the sort of a chance Jones r.au taken, 10 to one against him, but he had beaten the odds, got the one chance in 10, and took a new lease of battle, While all this was 'happening on the and Acting Gunner Henry Gardrcr, of Nantucket one lolt'er thyn his fel lew-braves lay ut 1 lie main yard to the earring for the purpose ef dropping them down the hatchway of the Serapis, which the I-Vbard's yardarm nearly overhung. After several attempts he succeeded in getting a grenade down through the hatches to the lower gun-deck of the Serapis, v. hen instantly a frightful explosion recurred. 1 he povve'er division of the English ship had done their duly too well, bringing up cartridges fn.ni II. magazines faster than they were nctlcd, and the surplus was strung ah ng the deck in wake of the guns; some of the cartridges having been broken onen by trampling or careless handling, so that loose powder strewed tho deck.

Henry Gardner's hand-grenade fired this train, blowing up the whole row of cartridges from end to end of the deck, killing and Last Staoe of the Battle. The battle picture below is from a painting by Dumanoir, Paris, 1780. It shows the stern of the Serapis in the foreground and the bow of the Richard. Tho moment of scene isJakcn at the fouling of tho Serapis's anchor in tho Richard's mizzen-chains, and just before they had completely locked yard-arms. The picture, though spirited, is not technically truthful.

It represents the mainmast of the Serapis as falling, which did nor. occur till sometime after the moment of scene, and it also represents the Serapis as a single-decked ship. waa so close that she fouled the wind of the Serapis and stopped the wuy of the latter while gathering way of her own. The Serapis now fell off by the stern as the Richard blanketed her, producing Position No. 7, in which, as the Richard was now far enough athwart his hawse to let the breeze strike his sails again, Pearson backed his main and after sails in the desperate resort of backing his shin astern to keep clear.

But the Richard now'had good steering way, and a pufi" of wind striking on her quarter before the Serapis could gather slernway, Jones broached his ship h'narp to on the other tack and grazed lus side along the Serapis's starboard side until the fluke of the latter's spare anchor hooked in the Richard's chains and was made fast, producing Position No. 8, from which they swung together half round the compass to Position No. i), and from that quarter around again into Position No. 10. in which Pearson let go his port anchor in the last hope that as the ships tended the Richard might drift clear.

The time was now about 10 15 p. and the distance from Position No. 1 about the same as in No. 5 say, seven miles. As Pearson veered cable tho ships tended, btill swinging, but inseparable, into Position No.

11, in which about 11-20 to 11:. "JO p. m. Jones ordered his hoarders under John Mayrant to storm tho decks of the enemy, and Pearson struck his flag. Note.

The diagram is copied from one made many years ago on a larger scale by Henry G. Gardner, of Nantucket, to illus trate his description of the battle, und is I fif ill kWfii-ti 'i still extant.j passed up uie rucKct oi jianocrcnaoes wounding many men and setting the woodwork afire. This explosion hushed the ccmbat on both sides for a moment. In that moment the 200 prisoners below decks in the Richard, already in water up to their necks in the hold, and frenzied with terror at the thought that the explosion must have been of the magazine, burst all bounds and swarmed to the upper deck. Now for the first time the Alliance, commanded by the wretched Landais, took a hand in the fight, her shot raking the Richard and Serapis alike, but damaging the Richard most.

1 will not disfigure this narrative by introducing into it a discussion of the conduct of Landais or his motives; all of which were subsequently investigated by a court of inquiry of competent jurisdiction, with the result that he lost his commission. Suffice for my purpose to say that the fire of the Alliance was chiefly destructive to the Richard, and made her, instead of consort, a new enemy; so that to'all intents Jones was now assailed from three sides: by tho alongside; by the Alliance astern, and by the escaping prisoners from below. REVOLT OF THE PRISONERS. One of the prisoners, the Master of a ship captured in the Firth of Forth, willed on his shipmates to foil or or escape with him on board the Serapis, exclaiming: "Don't touch the pumps! Let the Yankee pirate sink!" It is useless to speculate what Jones might have done in such an emergency. Before he could do anythin' his French Orderly, Pierre Gerard, blew the top of the Englishman's head off with a shot from his boardinir-nistol.

which he presented against his victim's temple as he pulled the trigger fragments of skull, hair and brains spattering Commodore Jones's uniform. This cowed the others, and they readily obeyed the order to bear a hand at the pumps." Capt. Pearson had ordered the ring-stopper and shank-painter cut away, so as to cast loose the anchor that was foul with the Richard; but the French "marines on the latter's poop-deck promptly shot down every English sailor who attempted to cut them, and then Pearson let go his port anchor in "the forlorn hope that as his ship swung with the tide to her cable the Richard would drift clear. But the lashings were too good; the hitches held! Both ships now swung together, and as the Serapis veered cable they anchored in about 20 fathoms and tailing about southeast they fought to the finish. In this situation the battle became simply a contest of game and bottom, a test of pluck and endurance.

The remaining people of the Richard, armed with muskets, pistols and hand-grenades, kept the upper decks of the Serapis clear, while the gun-deck batteries of the Serapis continued an impotent fire below; most of the cannon-balls of which made a clean breach through the empty and shattered gun-deck of the Richard. One or two feeble attempts to board were made by tho English, but were repulsed almost as soon as Jones, however, got two of his quarterdeck long nines to bear on the main mast of the Serapis, and after a few rounds of double-head or "bar-shot" that mast tottered over the lee side, carrying with it the running rigging of the other masts that led through its tops and cross-trees, together Willi me miz.on-iopniiuu. BOARDING TtiE NEMY. Some little time afteir answering Pearson's hail, Capt. Jones flfrdcred Acting Lieut.

Mayrant to muster af "boarding party of about -10 or 45 American sailors, with cutlasses and pistols, unfler flic break of the quarter-deck, and be Mayrant, with savage forethought, pifckctP out men who had suffered in Englrsh dungeons. Observing now that were beginning to flinch from t'he forward part of their decks, he shijUtcd' to Mayrant: "Now's your time, John- Gb in!" Willi his fierce HuglfenoC blood boiling, and a hoarse yell, "Rcnftmber Portsea jail!" the dauntless South! Carolinian led his hand of Yankee sdilorrfJ over the ham mock-netting and down inlo the waist 'erT the Serapis, encountering little resistance, hough he was himself run through the fleshy part of the thigh by a pike in the hands of an English -sailor. Mayrant instantly killed this sai lev a pistol shot, which was the last casualty of the action. At the same moment Capt. Pearson, seeing the Americans in full possession of the forepart of his ship and sweeping all before them aft toward the quarter-deck, seized the ensign halyards of the Serapis and struck his flag himself.

THE SERAPIS SURRENDERS. There was, however, so much smoke from tho fires raging on both ships and such confusion aboard both that the situation was not perceived in either ship, and the English gunners on the Serapis's lower gun-deck kepi up their cannonade, while the French marines on the Richard's poop-deck and the American sailors in the (ops of the latter continued their musketry, until Mavrant. seeing Dale standing on the Richard's rail holding on to the foretopmast back-stay called out to him: "He has struck; stop the firing. Come on board and take possession!" Quickly accepting this welcome invitation, Dale swung himself onto the rail of the Serapis, made his way to the quarterdeck, stopping only to grasp the hand of gallant young Mayrant and congratulate him on being the first officer of the Richard to perceive and announce the surrender of the enemy, and then presented himself to Capt. Pearson, sayirig: "1 have the honor, sir.

to be the First Lieutenant of the ship alongside, which is the American Continental ship Bon Homme Richard, under command of Commodore Paul Jones. What ship is this' "His Britannic Majesty's late ship, the Serapis, sir," was the sad response, "and 1 am Capt. Richard Pearson." "Pardon me, sir," said the American officer; "in the haste of the moment I forgot to inform you that my name is Richard Dale, and must request you to pass on board the ship alongside." The First Lieutenant of the Serapis now came up from below, anil, noticing Dale's uniform, he asked Capt. Pearson: "lias the enemy struck, sir?" "No, sir; I have struck," was the laconic reply. "Then I will go below and order our men to cease firing," said the English Lieutenant.

"Pardon me, sir," said Dale; "I will attend to that; for yourself, please accompany Capt. Pearson on board the ship alongside." Pearson and his Lieutenant then went on board the Richard, where Capt. Jones received them with characteristic courtesy. INTERVIEW BETWEEN CAPTAINS. Several historians, including even tho careful and accuratcf Sdell McKenzie, put into Pearson's mouh the following words as he delivered up his sword to Jones: "Sir, it is with reluctance that I hand this sword to a manttWHo fights with a halter 'round his 1ii(jfck!" (Mackenzie's Life Paul paije JJjR.) This statement, apartffrAm any evidence to the contrary, is intfrnsfcally incredible.

Pearson was by no means a Chesterfield, but he, was a brave maTh and an olTicer of rank, and whatever mayi have been the poignaneiy of his feelillgsJie had too keen a sense of the amenities" oL'such a situation to indulge in impotent booi'ishness. However, there is eidemce to the contrary, and the witnesses F'aul Jones himself He says- "Capt Pearson now confronted me, the image of chagrin and despair. He offered me1 his sword with a slight bow, but was silent. Bis First Lieutenant followed suit. I was sorry for both of them, for they had fought their ship better and braver thun any English ship was ever fought before, and this fortune of war came hard to them.

1 wanted to speak, but they were so sad and dignified in their silence, I hardly knew what to say. Finally 1 mustered courage and said as I took the swords and handed them to Midshipman Potter at my elbow: "'Capt. Pearson, you" have fought heroically. You havo worn this sword toyour own credit and to the honor of your service. I hope your sovereign will suitably reward "Ho bowed again, but made no reply; whereupon I requested him and his Lieutenant to accompany Mr.

Potter to my caljin." Doubtless Mackcnzio was led into his error by cofus'ng two entirely distinct records. After Capt. Pe irson was cx- changed Jind returned to England, he underwent the formal court-martial which is invariable in such cases. In his statement to tho court he laid great stress on what ho termed "the extreme and unheard-of desperation of my adversary, whose stubbornness had so affected my own people that I could no longer urge them to resistance above decks." The Judge-Advocate then asked: "How do you account, Capt. Pearson, for this extreme and unheard-of desperation?" "I cannot account for it, sir," replied Pearson dryly, "unless it was because Capt.

Jones, knowing that our Government had declared him a pirate, felt that he was fighting with a rope 'round his neck!" (Lieut. Breton's paper in tho Magazine; also Admiralty Papers.) This was proper enough for the time and place when and where it was uttered, and it had a flavor of grim humor there. But it would have been atrociously unofiicerlike as located by Mackenzie. Meantime Dale and Mayrant occupied themselves on board the Serapis with silencing her lower-deck battery, from which at least two or three 18-pound shots were fired into, or rather through, the Richard's gun-deck after Capt. Pearson and his Lieutenant had reached her upper deck as prisoners! As soon as all firing was silenced and victory was complete Jones ordered his men to cut the lashings that held the fiuke of the Serapis's anchor in the Richard's miz.en chains, and the ships at once drifted clear.

The light wind that had prevailed during the battle died out and it fell dead calm. TIIE CASUALTIES. Pearson says that the loss of the Serapis was 70 killed and about 100 wounded, out of an effective list, present for duty at stations when the action began, of 317. Jones says the loss of the Serapis was at least 100 killed and about 104 to 100 wounded. Jones gives the loss of tho Richard as 47 killed and 116 wounded, not counting those slightly injured.

Of this total of 163 killed or disabled, the 132 French marines lost 70, or more than half their number, which indicates that they did their duty bravely and well. The number of prisoners taken in the Serapis, both wounded and unharmed, whom Jones accounted for after arriving at the Texel, was 202. This, taking Pearson's statement of the total for duty at the beginning of the action ns accurate 317 would leave 115 killed or died of wounds in the Serapis. As Jones landed and turned over to the French Ambassador 106 wounded prisoners at the Texel, the total loss of the Serapis would seem to reach the frightful tofiil of 221 killed and wounded out of 317. The personnel of the Richard at the be ginning of the fight appears to have been one Captain, two Lieutenants and 318 other officers and men; the others belonging to her original complement, as previously stated, being absent in prizes.

The battle was over, but by no means the trouble ended. The time was nearly midnightr but the full moon overhead in a cloudless sky made it almost as light as day. Capt. Jones instantly began to survey his ship as soon as she drifted clear from the Serapis. He found that she had seven feet of water in her hold and was beginning to choke some of the pumps, though he had them double-manned by his English prisoners.

She had already sunk so much that many shot-holes were below the water-line, and could not be plugged. THE RICHARD'S CONDITION. The condition of the Richard at this moment can hardly be imagined, much less described. Nearly 50 of her crew were stretched dead about her decks. More than a hundred and 20 others lay writhing and gasping with desperate wounds, to which the good old Surgeon, Dr.

Laurens Brooke, unassisted as he was, could give but scant attention. About 40 of her surviving or uninjured crew had followed Lieut. Mavra into the Serapis, and were in charge of the prize. Not more than 100 unwounded men of her own crew remained to manage the Richard and to hold in check the 200 or more prisoners on board. Nearly every 12-pounder gun in the starboard broadside was dismounted or disabled.

The starboard side of the ship, that had been in the wake of the Serapis's lower tier of 18-pounders, was simply driven in; so that, but for a few frames, futtocks and stanchions that itill ren ained intact, the whole gun-deck would have fallen through. And even what the shot had spared the flame were at this moment devouring. Such was the condition of the Richard when, sinking and on fire, she was still the onqueror and cculd by tignal command the ship that had destroyed her! Nothing like this has ever been known in the annals of naval warfare. The removal of the Richard's wounded to the Serapis consumed much time; nearly all day, in fact, because the poor fellows had to be handled tenderly, and but three boats remained available. Fortunately it had now fallen dead calm and the sea was without a ripple.

Had there been any wind or seaway the Richard must have foundered immediately and the scene become one of unheard of horror. However, the wounded were all transferred during the day, except two, who died in the boats. The "unwounded prisoners were his next care. Capt. Cottineau took some of them into the Pallas; a few were put into the Countess of Scarboro, Cottineau's prize.

The rest went over to the Serapis. Jones now told his crew to get on board the Serapis, retaining only a few of the Pallas's men in the Richard, and busied himself in saving the ship's papers. For his own part saved only a few souvenirs from his feminine friends in Paris, his journal, and a bag of linen. "No one was now left aboard the Richard," he says in his journal, "but our dead. To them I gave the gorid old ship for their coffin, and in her they found a sublime sepulchre! "She rolled heavily in the long her gun-deck awash to the port-sills; settled slowly by the head, and sank peacefully in about 40 fathoms." Many victories have been won at sea.

Human heroism has often reached its zenith in battle on the wave. But in all the annals of naval warfare, from Sa-lamis to Mobile Bay; from Themisto les to Farmgut, but one commander and one cr have captured and b-ought into port the ship that sank their own! That unique honor belongs, and in all human probability will forever belong, to Paul Jones and the immortal crew of the Bon Homme Richard. THE OFFICEnS. Thc'oflicers of the Bon Homme Richard were as foil, ws: Commissioned Captain, Paul Jcnes, Philadelphia- First L'eufenant, Richard Dale, Philadelphia; Second L'cu tenant, Cutting Lunt, Boston; lliird L'eutenant, Henry Lunt, Boston; Fourth Ltutenant, Edward Stack, France; Fifth L'eutenant, Eugene JMacarty, France. (Stack and lacarty were volunteers from Walsh's celebrated regiment of marine artillery, which formed part of the "Irish Legion" in the French service, and in which they were Master, Samuel Stacey, Portsmouth, N.

Surgeon, L-iu-rens Brooke, Virginia; Purser, Matthew Mease, Philadelphia; Captain of Paul de Chamillard, France; First L'eutenant of Marines. Francois de Bernerie, France; Second Lieutenant of Maiines, Weihert de France. Warrant Mi shipman, May ant, Stubhs, Portsmouth, William Daniel, HicI mond, Tcol.ert Coram, Charleston, S. John L. White, Philadelphia; West Linthwaite, Savannah, Richard Watt, Norfolk, Gilbert Watt, Norfi V.i, Va.

Master's Mates Reuben Chase, Nantucket; Jonas Caswell, Portsmouth, N. IL; Boatswain, John C. Robinson, Philadelphia; Carpenter, John Gunnihon, Boston; Sailmaker, William Clarke, Philadelphia: Gunner, Arthur Randall, Norfolk. (At the time of tho action It ndall was disrated or uspended by Cap1. Jones for miscondu i First Quarter Gunner, or Gunner's Mate, Henry Grafton Gardner, of Nantucket, appointed Acting Gunner in his place.) i To be continued.) EDITORIAL NOTE.

Dramatic events following the battle with the Serapis are told in the next installment. How Jonea nearly fought a duel with Landais after a trying voyage in the battered Serapis, and how ha eluded tho British fleet off the Holland coast are told most entertainingly. Charleston, I-S. 'J nomas K. 1'otter.

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P. Cannon, and E. J. Wentz, of Little Falls, N. with reference to the capture of Co.

G. 0th Ohio during the civil war. As one of the survivors of that event, I was pleased to read the articles. The account of the capture as given by Dr. Cannon is substantially as I recollect it.

However, I do not remember that we were greatly "scared," or that we thought the attacking party belonged to Forrest's command. As we had the previous day, under orders from Headquarters, been "foragintr. upon the citizens of that section, we (that is, I at least,) at first supposed they had banded together and were trying to drive us from our position, in order To recover their property. We could not blame them for that. We had time to escape by flight, but did not do so, for several reasons: We were we didn't think of such a thing; we did not know the numbers or character of the enemy.

We stood our ground and exchanged shots with them for about 15 minutes, thus giving them time wiih their superior force to swing around and completely surround us. They, being humane, manifestly did not want to shoot us down unnecessarily, and so called out to us to surrender. We now-beean to see by the dim glare of our smoulderinir. campfjres that we were ereatly outnumbered by uniformed soldiers in infantry dress; and that to fight longer would be reckless and foolhardy. We did the best thing that could be done at that time namely, surrendered.

Our captors told us they belonged to the 27th and 35th their ranks were greatly depleted by long, hard service at the front, and they were in the neighborhood just across the Tennessee River for the purpose of resting and recruiting. They they had all been prisoners at one time or another, some of them several times, and that they had been treated well by the Yankees. E. J. Went, states that Capt.

J. N. Hetzlrruas openly denounced for the surrender, and fur not putting a guard on the river j-ideof the plantation," etc. I wish to correct this fa't-e and unjust impression. When there one left to tell the st ry, on vhat ground could such judgment be formed? After the hard work of the day, (all dav long in the saddle), we would not have remained at that point (Peters's plantation) for the night, but for several reasons, as I recollect them.

The men were ery tired from hard service for several tays and nights before this, "he 00 or more cattle gathered from all over the ecu try would naturally be hard to drive away in the night. In foraging, we had divided into squads of six or eight men each, and the squad which 1 commanded did not get in w.th its c-ittle, mules and bacon until after 11 o'clock that night. A Captain and one or two men belonging to a regiment about live nrlcs back of us, which was stationed there to guard the rh er, reported to our Captain thataftemoon that the river, which was very high, was well-guarded and we were perfectly safe, and need have no fear. I think this regiment was the 7th III. M't'd Inf.

Our Captain did put out two pickets and stationed a camp guard. One of the pickets, Geo. S. Vanmeter, and one of the camp guard, James Jones, were killed. If anyone ever thought of attaching blame to our Captain, it was certainly without reason, for he was a good soldier, and as I myself know, he wai always exceedingly kind to his men.

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Y. Tuscaloosa I discovered that a Johnny-could subsist on smaller rations than a Yankee. Every night the same ration was issued to us as to our guard, man for man, but long before night next day my ration would be eaten up and I as hungry as a bear." I would then ask some guard if he had any "grub" to spare, and in every case ho would give me half or all he had left, remarking pleasantly: "I can get along till night all right." It was not their fault ihat we were not so well treated in Ander-sonville later on. My recollection of them is that they were men incapable of unkind-ness and inhumanity. At Tuscaloosa we took a reluctant farewell of our kind guards and fell into other hands.

After a few days in the old jail here we were taken on the Black Warrio River to Demopolis, thence by rail to Selma, and then down the Alabama River on the steamer Jeff Davis to Cahaba. After about a week in this prison we were put on the steamer Southern Confederacy and taken to Montgomery, thence by rail to AndersonviIIe, upon wiiose hospitality we entered May 2, 1861. Here many of our number fell under the cruel hand of exposure, starvation, and disease. The rest of us were removed to Florence, S. Sept.

12. Some were ex changed in December. with others, did not reach our lines "God's country," as we called it until Feb. 27, 1865, making just 321 days of starvation and with nothing over us but the sky and nothing under us but the ground. So far as I know, but eight of the -12 survived tho awful ordeal.

I wish the little remnant might read this, and all meet at Cincinnati next September; and, for my part, I would be glad to take Dr. Cannon or anv of our captors by the hand at the same time. James L. Gamble. Quaitermaster-Ser geant, Co.

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93d Blooming-ton, wites: "In looking over THE National Tkibuxe I see many things that; are iuterestinir to me. I have wanted to write for some time, but am afraid to say iny regiment ever took part in any battle, for fear some comrad-j will up and say it was some other regiment. I would like "to know what regiments made the last charge on Overton Hill, Xashville. Dec. IS, 18S4.

I havo always thought they were the 10th Minn, and Ind. I am sure I went back with, quite a number of prisoners." "Umber Jim" I.Wiiijr. Thomas Goodman, known as Limber Jim in AndersonviIIe prison, Avho has been believed by many of the comrades to be dead, is Still living, we are informed by his son, Arthur Goodman, of Ills. for Hereford's gfd Phosphate Pleasant to the Taste. vkirv Tmmvnnwo mmr txt TinrnniTro BiilJlD UUlUXUiUJO UTUil lit DUIirjEiD.

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