The New York herald., 1863-03-20
Fight Of the Unien GunbOat Chillicetho
with > Rebel Battery At tho
Mouth Of tho YalIobusha.
THE cMllcoTHE SERIOUSLY DAMAGED
Three Persons Killed and Fourteen Wounded
on the Gunboat.
THE II EBEL Loss,
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CmcDr1n, March 10, 1868.
Special dispatches nom Memphis announce that tho
YazOo rass expedition had met with check.
On Friday last tho gsnboat Chlicoths encountered
rebel battery at the junction OF the Yaobusha and Tan
halchie rivers. Tho fight lasted all day.
One shot from the battery entered portfolio Of the
hico,he killing four persons and wounding fourteen.
The Chnllcohe received sixty four Shots and was
aged seriously.
MEMPHIS, March Is, 1903.
intelligence from the Yazoo Pass expedition TO satur-
day morning, tho l4th inst, is received
Tho feet consisted Of tho Chillicothe, DcKslb i've
mail gunboats OF the mosquito feet and eighteen
ports The Chlcothe Was said to be short Of ammuni.
tion.
At the town Of Greenwood at tho confluence Of the
Tsahaichc Yalioousha rivers Thursday evening,
the chliccths fired upon by battery Of Ave heavy
guns.
The firing continued all day Friday and fow
Shots were exchanged on saturday morning.
Tho result Is not yet known
The Chicothe received sixty -four Shots ono or which
entering port hole killed three and wounded fourteen
non.
Besiaes tho Greenwood battery The enemy said TO
- strongly fortified At Ya3oo City and Manchester
The feet at last accounts, thrso miles above tho
sncton Of the Talahatchc and YalIobusha rivers two
Asndred miles from Helena and ono hundred and hty
com Yaxoo City A&t
Sketch or the Iron-Clad Chillicotl,e.
The ironclad Chillioohe, whose brilliant exploits on
shs Ys2oo river have rendered familiar TO
veaders, was buht ~ New Albany. She b hundred
asd scveay feet IN length, sixty feet beam and
Ssse deep and draws when loaded about feet Of
~. she propelled by four independent engines two
fsf thc paddle wheels and two for the two proposrs
each working independent Of the other. she has four
boilers, high pressure, a Sho bnit for
thirteen knot boat has realized her buiders most
saaguine expccsatious. che s completely mailed with
oss and t&o incA iroa ana ths tuvrst which station
sry, wA s,onc sdos and shc proof ratings overhead
= clad With double wrought iron plating; three inches
IN thickness backed by solid oak sixteen inches thick
Hsr eleven inch Dahgren guns In the ur
ret four twenty pounder howzers in broadsde
shs house extending from the turret 10 the wheels
which occupied quarters for the captain and officers
whom net In action. There is also full complement o
rooms below. aT .
Her engine boilers and lower quarters all protected
~ mailing She has appliances for throwing hot water
n event Of being boarded by the enemy.
She has two immense and powerful capstans TO hcav,
bar shoals and bars in the rivers when there low
water
Enc has been commission only short time, and he
superior build ard powers Of resistance gave her IN,
plzce Of hsad bostn in the expedition which she
performs 50 gallsnt and bold part.
me folowinsi is list of her onicers;-
Ncuenani clrspsonder--James p Foster.
Acting Ensign.-W. J. Powers, Walter Minis.
Asssters' Kate--Hcnry Baker, Horace A. Hammond.
Axsss,ont S,xgesa--Hcnry N. Mixer.
lsssstdW Pdspoxfe--J. II. Hathaway.
xSyt Assis,srt EnglRoer-J. ID. Rice.
Sa0Nd ASSISTANT EnDi,lse--C. w. Reynolds.
3Aird Assss0i E,,sine>rsJ. j. Briggs, Chas Trotter.
Puots-D~ N. Dryden, T. f. Underwood.
Rebel Account OF the A0air.
Richmond paper Of the 10th instant contains tl