. A memorial of Rev. Thomas Smith (second minister of Pembroke, Mass.,) and his descendants ... A full genealogical record. 1707-1895. T, from which he graduated in 1862. He as-sumed his first command November 18, 1864, wTith butthirty men and officers, commanding the Ellis, previouslycaptured in Pamlico Sound. On the 23rd, five days later,he captured a prize schooner valued at s30,000, and manydaring feats followed in quick succession. The Monticellowas the fourth command he had had at the age of twenty-one, the Albemarle having been destroyed one wreek beforehe was twenty-two. That daring fe
. A memorial of Rev. Thomas Smith (second minister of Pembroke, Mass.,) and his descendants ... A full genealogical record. 1707-1895. T, from which he graduated in 1862. He as-sumed his first command November 18, 1864, wTith butthirty men and officers, commanding the Ellis, previouslycaptured in Pamlico Sound. On the 23rd, five days later,he captured a prize schooner valued at s30,000, and manydaring feats followed in quick succession. The Monticellowas the fourth command he had had at the age of twenty-one, the Albemarle having been destroyed one wreek beforehe was twenty-two. That daring feat—one of the mostdesperate and remarkable enterprises of our late wTar—hasbeen written and talked of till his name is a householdword in all patriotic homes. Yet I must quote, for thebenefit of those of his own blood, from the Ann// and NavyJournal of that time (1864): The Albemarle was an ironclad of tremendous strength, whoseexploits were such that, Government not having one of equalstrength, all operations against this rebel were useless; andthe expense of a squadron to keep watch over her was Commander William P>. dishing, U. S. N. SMITH MEMORIAL. 69 In this emergency Lieut. Cashing7 submitted two plans to Ad-miral Lee for the rams destruction. The Admiral approved ofone of them, and sent its projector to Washington to lay it beforethe Secretary of the Navy ; and the latter, though at first a littledoubtful of its merits, finally authorized him to procure the meansto carry it into execution ; and he immediately purchased in NewYork two open launches, each about thirty feet long, fitted with asmall engine and propelled by a screw, carrying a howitzer, andprovided with a long boom that swung by a hinge, which could beraised or lowered at will, and which had a torpedo in the grooveat its further extremity. These boats were taken down throughthe canals to the Chesapeake, one of them being lost on the way,and the other reaching the sounds at iast, thr
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