. Frank Leslie's scenes and portraits of the Civil War ... . INFERNAL MACHINE DESIGNED BY THE CONFEDERATES TO DESTROY THE FEDERAL FLOTILLA IN THE POTOMAC DISCOVERED BY CAPTAIN BUDD OF THE STEAMER RESOLUTE. An infernal machine designed by the Confederates to blow up the Pawnee and the vessels of the Potomac flotilla, which was set ^ftD™£t£jg™Creek, was picked up on the 7th of July, 1861, floating toward the Pawnee. The following description of the article was sent to the, navy\™V* @ « Two large eighty-gallon oil casks, perfectly watertight, acting as buovs. connected bv twenty-five fathoms of t
. Frank Leslie's scenes and portraits of the Civil War ... . INFERNAL MACHINE DESIGNED BY THE CONFEDERATES TO DESTROY THE FEDERAL FLOTILLA IN THE POTOMAC DISCOVERED BY CAPTAIN BUDD OF THE STEAMER RESOLUTE. An infernal machine designed by the Confederates to blow up the Pawnee and the vessels of the Potomac flotilla, which was set ^ftD™£t£jg™Creek, was picked up on the 7th of July, 1861, floating toward the Pawnee. The following description of the article was sent to the, navy\™V* @ « Two large eighty-gallon oil casks, perfectly watertight, acting as buovs. connected bv twenty-five fathoms of three-and-a-half-ii ioli roj e ^3™/^!squares of cork, every two feet secured to casks by iron handles. A heavy bomb of boiler iron, fitted with a brass tap and filled with Pjwjer. waspended to the casks six feet under water. On top of the cask was a wooden box, with fuse in a gutta-percha tube. In the centie ot the corKa platform with a great length of fuse coiled away, occupying the middle of the GENERAL W. W. AVERILL. 5th, ^t^Sdui1 arth°eTa ^r^r^-Y-> *™*>« 1855, and assigned tthe mountedri£m« ^^ Academy in June,lieutenant of t|le mounted Sflemen Mav 14tn ??n M P/°m°ted *° be firstin the neighborhood of ffS y }Uh }861 and was on staff dutyRun and Sthei e™LS■ g ?•, PartlclPatll>g in the battle of Bullpointed colonel o fffE P™??8 23d 18G1 wheQ he was ap- Rat fcs^i™ £Sf*»a ISresigned, having ^l^^^^ *&K? ^ *
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