From the Huly 3rd Long Recall Blog.
According to Baltimore papers, the steamer St. Nicholas left that city Friday, June 28th, with about 50 secessionists on board. most disguised as mechanics and going to points along the Maryland shore of the Potomac River.
Among them was a Captain Hollis, late of the USS Susquehannock, who was disguised, by some accounts, as a woman. He/she retired to a state room immediately after boarding the ship.
After leaving Point Lookout, Hollis threw off his disguise and with the other secessionists, seized control of the steamer and immediately put across to Coney River on the Virginia side where the passengers were put ashore.
Hollis then took the ship on a "piratical cruise" of the Rappahannock River where he captured three other vessels with cargoes of coffee, ice and coal and took them all to Fredericksburg.
Confederate papers report that Col. Thomas and his Zouaves were the ones who captured the ship and then turned it over to Hollis. According to these papers, the operation was "bold and masterly."
What You Going to Do? --Old B-Runner
No comments:
Post a Comment