. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . n the batteries every shot. The Ijattle lasted hotly for nearly two hours and ended with the totaldefeat and precipitate flight of the Confederates, who abandoned two eight-inch guns in their earthworks, together with e(iiiipnHMits. th(>ir dead, and alltheir entrenching tools. The Paunee came to the help of her little consort, AMERICAN HEROISM. 723 and steaming up the Kiowah River enfiladed the enemy and hastened hisretreat. The Willia
. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . n the batteries every shot. The Ijattle lasted hotly for nearly two hours and ended with the totaldefeat and precipitate flight of the Confederates, who abandoned two eight-inch guns in their earthworks, together with e(iiiipnHMits. th(>ir dead, and alltheir entrenching tools. The Paunee came to the help of her little consort, AMERICAN HEROISM. 723 and steaming up the Kiowah River enfiladed the enemy and hastened hisretreat. The Williams also joined in the action and pitched big shells fromher mortar into the woods. By 8 A. M. the enemy was in full retreat and the battle over. Thetroops in the village sallying out spiked the guns in the batteries, andCaptain Meade landing in his gig planted the Marblehead flag over theearthworks and then reported to Captain Balch that the abandoned gunscould be brought away. Three days afterward he landed with one hundredmen from the three vessels and brought away the eight-inch guns, thecarriages were thrown into the bayou and the works Admiral Dahlgren was greatlypleased, and highly complimentedall concerned in the victory, forit was the first substantial navalsuccess since the battle of PortRoyal. Now for a history of the Farley, boatswains mate, was born in 1839, at Whitfield,Maine, and was therefore twenty-four years of age at the time of the enlisted at Boston in December, 18(i(), and his term of three years servicehad just expired. He was a handsome, blue-eyed young fellow about fivefeet eight inches in height, strongly built and powerful in frame, and wasclear grit all through as his conduct showed. To his exertions as much as The Deck of the Marblehead at the BeginninhOF the Action. 724 THE STORY OF to those of any other man on board, Ensign Winslow the execution officeralone excepted, did Captain Meade attribute the result of th
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