. Eastern Maine and the rebellion: being an account of the principal local events in eastern Maine during the . eld. He had never left his command for a single day. Aftermuch demur, on the part of the Government, and a proffer of aposition as Brigadier General, his resignation was finally accepted,and he was honorably discharged, January 10th, 1863. Captain C. A. a brief period at the School of Instruction, at the Charles-town navy yard, he was ordered to report to Rear Admiral Dupont, commanding the South Atlantic Blockading Squad-ron, and was by him assigned to duty
. Eastern Maine and the rebellion: being an account of the principal local events in eastern Maine during the . eld. He had never left his command for a single day. Aftermuch demur, on the part of the Government, and a proffer of aposition as Brigadier General, his resignation was finally accepted,and he was honorably discharged, January 10th, 1863. Captain C. A. a brief period at the School of Instruction, at the Charles-town navy yard, he was ordered to report to Rear Admiral Dupont, commanding the South Atlantic Blockading Squad-ron, and was by him assigned to duty, on board the UnitedStates steamer Paul Jones, a side wheel tlouble-ender. armed witha heavy battery. On this vessel, Mr. Boutelle participated inthe blockade of Charleston, South Carolina, in the disastrousPoeataligo expedition, in several engagements with rebel bat-tries, on Morris Island, and an exchange of rifled complimentswith the rebel ironclad Chicoia, across Charleston Bar. Also,in the combined naval and military operations, against the ten-gun battery, on St. John Bluff, near the mouth of the St. John. Hon. C. A. BOUTELLE, Late U. S. Navy. ox Eastern Maine and the Eebellion. 335 River, Florida, at the capture of which he commanded a battery ofnavy howitzers, landed and served by United States marines. Atthe subsequent occupation of Jacksonville, he also landed withhowitzer battery, to check the offensive demonstrations of theenemy. The Paul Jones was actively engaged in expeditions andblockading, all along the South Carolina and Georgia coast, andthe Atlantic coast of Florida. In the fall of 1863, Mr. Boutelle was ordered to the UnitedStates steamer Sassacus, one of the new double-enders, then fittingout at Boston. On this fine vessel, he was navigator and ordi-nance officer, and during her first week of service, on the offshore blockade, near Wilmington, North Carolina, two valua-ble blockade-runners were chased ashore, and destroyed by aboarding crew, from the Sass
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