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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Capture of the Indianola. (search)
or action. Our order of approach was as follows: The Queen of the West about 500 yards in advance of the Webb, and the Batey, Lieutenant-Colonel Brand commanding (who I wrote you joined us with a force and steamer fitted out at Port Hudson) over We had also covered our lights, and only the fires of the Era could be seen, two miles back, where she was towing the Batey. The distance between him and the Queen had diminished to about 500 yards, when, for the first time, we could clearly ho had cast off from the tender Grand Era, and was hovering around to enter the fight when an opportunity offered. The Batey is a frail steamboat, with but little power, and incapable of being used as a ram. She was crowded with two hundred and fifty gallant volunteers from the forces at Port Hudson, who had embarked in the Batey with the resolution to fight the enemy by boarding him. We called out to them that the opportunity for boarding had arrived, as it was apparent the enemy was disab