. Sufferings endured for a free government; . of the Mound City, a little above and for-ward of the gunport, killing three men in its flight, andexploding her steam-drum. As a consequence, many ofthe crew leaped overboard, for whose rescue boats wereimmediately sent. But the rebels, instead of compas-sionating, and seeking to deliver, actually fired uponthese scalded and drowning men, and those sent to theirrescue, wounding many and killing others. Says Rear-Admiral C. H. Davis, then commanding theWestern Flotilla, in his report of June 19th, 1862, tothe Hon. Secretary of the Navy: The victory
. Sufferings endured for a free government; . of the Mound City, a little above and for-ward of the gunport, killing three men in its flight, andexploding her steam-drum. As a consequence, many ofthe crew leaped overboard, for whose rescue boats wereimmediately sent. But the rebels, instead of compas-sionating, and seeking to deliver, actually fired uponthese scalded and drowning men, and those sent to theirrescue, wounding many and killing others. Says Rear-Admiral C. H. Davis, then commanding theWestern Flotilla, in his report of June 19th, 1862, tothe Hon. Secretary of the Navy: The victory at St. Charles, which has probably givenus command of White river, and secured our connectionwith General Curtis, would be unalloyed with regretbut for the fatal accident to the steam-drum and heaterof the Mound City. u Of the crew, consisting of one hundred and seventy-five, officers and men, eighty-two have already died, forty-three were killed in the water or drowned, and twenty-five are severely wounded. * Dr. J. D. Hale, of MASSACRE IK TEXAS. 161 After the explosion took place the wounded menwere shot by the enemy, while in th« water, and theboats of the Conestoga, Lexington, and St. Louis, whichwhich went to the assistance of the scalded and drowningmen of the Mound City, were fired into both with greatguns and muskets, and were disabled, and one of themforced on shore to prevent sinking. The department and the country will contrast thesebarbarities of a savage enemy with the humane effortsmade by our own people to rescue the wounded anddisabled, under similar circumstances, in the engagementof the 6th instant. In his report of June 18th he says: Many must havebeen killed by the enemy while they were struggling inthe water. I was close to the spot, and distinctly sawand remarked on the cowardly act, at the moment theywere perpetrating it. MASSACRE OF AMERICANS AND GERMANS INTEXAS. In the latter part of 1862, a party of rebel murderers,commanded by that princ
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