Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-03-03
Tie V.cAsbars Expedition.
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TIE Federal ram Queen.of the West was
| captured by the rebels at Fort Taylor, near
GordOu's Lantiog, eighty miles up Red
| River, little after dark on Saturday. the
18th iust. Sic started on the expedition
! on the Tuesday light previous, with au ar
mament IF three u ppund brass hoyi'zers
! one 81 and one 80 pound lied PARROTS
The ierrY De- Soto acc M. Eied her
aud cani2d 80 round P4!rolt Ia crew
consisted mainly OF negroes. The artille,
lets were ~ lnexperieneed men, detached
from the 18th Illinois Infantry. uud6r Can.
G nnoC aud Lieut. Tuthill, The ram was
| Commanded by Capt Thompson, Of Peoria.
Col. Ellet acc ,mpanied the exuediiiuB. and
Gs ranking officer really commanded.
The boat passed the WarTenton batter
les wi;hcut-a shot, and met with 90 rUles-
| taucn above the puuth Of Red River. On
Thursday morning. she ran down tbeAtch-
alaiaya fox miles and captured and des-
troyed rebel Quartermaster train of sew
enteen wagons. Returning, she was fred
at, on Thursday night, by guorr,llas, near
Centrevlle. On Friday. A NJ, Cu. EIIet
landed, and burned al the buildings fpr
miles, IN retaliation, destroying half mill
ion dollars worth of property.
+ The Queen then proceeded up Red Riv-
er, and met and captured The Fra No 5.
with # uriecn soldiers, two officers, and
numbeI Of citizens aud leggo cargo of
CON.
The ram aud ihe De- SJto camo within
range OF Fort Taylor at 500 yards distance
about dark, and we're inm ediately fred on.
The De Sato fell back, while tho ram en-
gagged the f,rt. The third shot Struck the
ram, crashing through her decks. Our
men fred once at the fort, and then desert.
cd their game. In the emergency Cal Ell
let ordered the pilot to2back Out. Atlemp-
ting t} do 60, be ran bard aground. The
next shot, plunging through the deak,
broke the l9yer of the engine, a succeed
lng Gee cut ner sleam-pipe 10 two, com
pletely disabling her Twenty six of filty-
one white men aboard escaped 10 boats
and on H2ats. The. remainder were can
tured.
The De Soto transported the Survivors
to the Era, lying below. Fearing pursuit,
she was prepared for speedy trip up the
Mississippi. The De Soto was burned
The Era met the gunb0st 10 dianola near
Natchez on Tuesday morning, and while
lying there. the rebel gunboat wifi cams
~ elSnt, pursuing her, out formed back on
discovering the Iudianola. The Era liter
ally ran gauntlet Of Batteries and'sbaro
shooters I'll the way, but ned mir
aculqusly. The Indibn / is still Wing be-
low '!' a' ,3.s-1- E-t - = - :
? Among the prisoners are Can't. Thorn NJ
son. fatally wounded FIRST AtsistautEn-
gineer Ed. Taylor, badly scGIded: the
Surgeon. Engineer, Carpenter fourteen SOL
diers, the entire crew, and Finley An
derson, correspondent of the n. Y. Her
aid 57i -.a - -'a.'s sli.. : F,iq-tiH : =
Col. E,Iebrep9rts 5000 rebel troopss and
large supply ofcattIe fifteen miles be-
low here, on the y est side. ,'ar1
The rebels have the following eunboats
up Red River: D6ublcon, Grand Duke
webb, Grand Era, Quitman, aud the cap
tured ram Iaa .s5 I..5u =,
Everything is dull here. .1e-s
% Work is being pressed vigorously on the |
canal. s. f7aiaS.5s . &c
National salutes were fred yesterday by,
the army aud navy oei ai9s ~ So =
Capt: Smith, Gen. Frank Blairss Couhrlla
missary of Subsistence, is under arrest by
order Of Gen. Grant. f' a