SARAH BATTEN,
THIS LITTLE BOOK OF REMINISCENCES
IS MOST
RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Appointment in the United States Navy | 9 |
| On the Princeton | 10 |
| Choice Prescriptions | 10 |
| Acting as Coxswain | 11 |
| Detached from the Princeton | 12 |
| Adieu to Mother | 12 |
| Back of Orders | 13 |
| A Night on the United States Steamer Minnesota | 14 |
| Visiting Important Places in the Vicinity of Hampton, Va. | 15 |
| Dismal Swamp Canal. Reporting Aboard the Valley City | 15 |
| Washington, N.C. | 16 |
| Sinking United States Steamers Southfield and Bombshell | 17 |
| Death of Flusser. Plymouth Re-captured by the Confederates | 17 |
| An Attack on Washington, N.C. | 17 |
| Down Tar River in a Storm. Evacuation of Washington, N.C. | 18 |
| Newbern | 19 |
| Cruising | 20 |
| July 4, 1864 | 22 |
| Cruising, and Capturing John Taylor | 22 |
| Ordered to the Mouth of Roanoke River | 24 |
| Roanoke Island | 25 |
| Joining the Fleet | 25 |
| Ram Albemarle and Edenton | 26 |
| Taking H. T. Wood to U.S. Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va. | 27 |
| Again Through Dismal Swamp Canal. Too Late for the Boat Fawn. At Norfolk, Va. | 28 |
| Arriving Aboard the United States Steamer Valley City, and description of Dismal Swamp | 29 |
| Leaving Newbern | 32 |
| Winton | 32 |
| Appearance of the Albemarle at the Mouth of Roanoke River | 33 |
| Aground in Scuppernong river. A Brush with the Enemy | 34 |
| Confederate Account of It | 35 |
| What Mr. Milton Webster says of the Brush | 36 |
| Up Alligator River | 38 |
| Up Frying-pan River | 39 |
| Cushing the Brave | 40 |
| Meeting Cushing for the First Time | 40 |
| His Arriving Aboard the Valley City | 41 |
| Blowing up the Ram Albemarle | 41 |
| Three Cheers for Cushing | 42 |
| Cushing's Official Report | 45 |
| New York Herald's Dispatches | 49 |
| Mr. Galen H. Osborne's Dispatch | 49 |
| Mr. Oscar G. Sawyer's Dispatch | 52 |
| The Hero of the Albemarle in Washington, D.C. | 62 |
| The Valley City on the Dry Dock for Repairs | 63 |
| From Gosport, Va., to Plymouth, N.C. | 63 |
| During the Month of November, 1864 | 63 |
| Ashore for the First Time at Plymouth | 64 |
| Ashore at Newbern | 64 |
| Cruising | 65 |
| Rainbow Bluff. How a Fleet went up the Roanoke and came down again | 65 |
| New York Herald's Dispatch | 77 |
| Thanks of the Officers of the Otsego to Captain Wood | 86 |
| That Old Family Bible | 87 |
| The Valley City and Her Officers | 89 |
| Cruising | 92 |
| Chincapin Ridge | 98 |
| Cruising | 100 |
| Farewell to the Officers and Crew of the Valley City | 110 |
| Homeward Bound | 111 |
| Again through Dismal Swamp Canal | 112 |
| At Home | 112 |
| Meeting Men of Note | 113 |
| Ordered to Cairo, Ill. | 116 |
| Don Carlos Hasseltino | 118 |
| Honorable Discharge from U.S. Navy | 124 |