The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-07-04
The Capture of the Atlanta.

The correspondent of the Philadelphia
Inquirer at Port Royal gives some partic-
ulars of the capture OF the Atlanta that
will interest our readers. He says of the
decisive shot:
bel craft Capt. Rodgers, wishing to en-
courage such laudafle ambition on the
part of tho Atlanta S guns, sighted his gun
for the fifth Shot, and crash went the solid
ffteen-inch ball against the Atlanta
side, Just aft of the stareboard fore port
hole. You, can judge of the velocity of
this shot when ! tell YOU that it com
pletely bent in a wrought-iron armor four
inches thick, and shivered into fragments a
tourincll thickness Of Georgia pine plank.
These flying fragments struck the men
WORKING the larboard fore gun, killing one
and wounding thirteen ofthem. The force
Of the blow was so great that every man
completely stunned, The ball itself rolled
Off, from the AtlaNta's side and fell into the
water.
The correspondent, gives the following
additional items Of general interest:
One cannot imagine n more vi!lainous-
looking set, of men than this same Attain
ia crew. They are all Georgia "crackers,"
the poorest ''white trash OF Georgia,
without education, or any thing, in fact,
which would entitle them to be called men,
except that they have the human FORM
Not one man among them is sailor but
they are all soldiers. The officers, being
perfect gentlemen, compared strangely
with this gang of cut-throats. The men,
however, were grievously disappointed,
and loudly acclaimed against their i'll
luck.
Fourteen officers and fifty men, inclu-
ding those wounded, were transferred to
the steamer Island City, and theremainder
of the officers and crew were placed on
board Of the Oleander. They were all
brought upto this place yesterday morning
and again transferred to the United States
steamship Vermont, and the wounded
properly cared for. This afternoon they
were ali put aboard the United States
gunboat James Adger, which will carry
them TO New York. The entire crew,
officers and men, number one hundred and
sixty-tive, and a more detected looking set
of naval heroes never trod the deck Of q
gunboat before.
Upon examining the prize Capt. Rod
gers found that she had on board an i'm
mense stock OF prvisions and stores. These,
at the least calculation, were amply sutfi
cient for two months cruise, 'and of the
best quality. The clothing found on board
Of her, was of a superior make and tex
ture, and sufficient to keep The crew well
clothed for year. Her thermometers and
seXtants, Of which she had a large number
were very choice and valuable. The Off
GERS quarters were fitted up very luXuri
ously, and revealed q well selected stock
of liquors. cigars, tobacco, &c. Every
thing about her, in fact, indicated not only
that she was a pet of The rebels, but that
her unfortunate Voyagers had started upon
a long cruise.
The Atlanta is armed with six gnns, one
seven-inch pivot gun fore and aft, and two
six inch guns on each broadside. These
guns are all Brooks guns, which, you will
recolject, made such good execution against
our iron -clads in the attack on Charleston.
They ere, also, rifled, and throw that long
steel pointed missile of English maunfac-
ture. The Atlanta has two magazines, one
fore and one aft, well protected, and upon
opening one of them. five hundred rounds
Of ammunition were found in it. The 9TH
e. magazine is supposed to contain the
same amount. and, indeed, her officers say
she has on board one thousand rounds.
When YOU consider that one hundred
rounds is ships regular armament, you
can not but conclude that the Atlantas
cruise intended some damage. She had,
also, in addition, splendid supply flor
pedoes, cutlasses, boarding pixies, guns, re-
voiVers, DC. Her armament is truly glgan-
tic
She has inside three decks; first, the
gun deck, two bundled feet long by forty
VIDE; immediately below this is a deck
TWO hundred and eighty feet long. which is
subdivided into the captains cabin. aft
ward room, the petty officers quarters, and
forward the mems quarters Below this
GEEK is the third. the orlop deck, in which
are stored ali the stores. provisions. &c.
immediately for and aft of this deck arc
the magazines. The engines and their
necessary compliments, Of course. occupy
The center of the vessel These engines
are the same which were in her when she