Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-08-11

jeremiah Horrigan.
VIM. 'Halloran..- .,......---.
joshua Collins. -. Ordinary seaman "
James McBeath -
Chan chsrls r0 Maths n o1sinay Seaman
George Baker. Seaman. ..........
Timothy limo = Cauty. . -.--...''.''
Thomas Aloway..- 7"
William Barnes .Landsman@ ........
sme Asd antons Wsstsrn slsuaa
jose Dabney. .-... .I4andsman
B pjamin Button. Goal HEAVIER. $3.50. Malay
vanburn Francois. : Landsman.. ....... Holland.
Peter L1 T; seaman. ....-....-- ~,
jonathan Brien.. :. .Landsman ......-. :"
NJ nuai J Gallardo ID Glass Boy. Spain.
1t thus appears that out of hundred and sixty three
officers and of the Keasarge, there
only eleven persons foreign born.
Casualties the Kearsarge.
The following is the Surgeons Report of casualties
amongst the crew of the Kearsarge during the action
"US s. S KARsAReE
'Cherboarg, France-Atternoon, June IS, 1884
engagement this morning with the steamer Alabama.
sJohn w. Dempsey Quarter Gunner. Compound com.
mputed ras of right arm lower third and fore
Arm amputated
William Gowen, Ordinary Seaman Compound fracture
of left thigh and leg Seriously wounded; s.,.
of # leg Severes wounded
81 am, very respectfully, your o6edent servant,
JONI M. browne
Surgeon U. s. Navy.
"Captain JOHN A. WIxsLow
''Commanding u i. 8. s. Kearsarge Cherbourg
SO FOUNDER which passed through the starboard
below main-rggng narrowly escaping the after llnch
pivot gun.
The reported Firing upon tho alabama after her Sur
render.
Capt semmes makes the following statement in his Off
cial reports
al hough we were now but four hundred yards from
each other, TIE enemy fred upon five times after my
ship of of Christian nation could not have done This
tentionaly."
very nice appeal after the massacre Of Fort Pillow
especially when coming from who has spent the
previous two years of bis life Ia destroying unresstDg
merchantmen.
The Captain Of the Kearsarge never aware of the
Alabama having struck until boat put off from her to bic
own vessel Prisoners subsequently stated that she hsd
fired leegun but the fact not known board the
Federal ship that the coors hauled down
ken of surrender single fact will prove the humanity
with which Capt Window conducted the fight. At the
Of the action, his deck found to be literally
covered with grape and canister ready for close quar-
ters but he had used single charge Of all this
during the contest although within capital range for
ploying it.
The Feeling after the Battle.
The wounded of the two vessels transferred shortly
after the action to the naval hospital at Cherbourg paid
visit to that establishment the Sunday following the
and found the sufferers lying in comfortable
bedg alongside each other n long and admirably vent
lated ward the first floor. Poor Gowen who died the
following Tuesday in great pain and already bad the
seal Of death upon bis face. James McBssth, young
fellow Of apparently twenty years, with compound frac
ture OF the leg ehatted with much animation while
Dempsey the stump Of his right arm laid the pillow
comfortably smoking cigar, and laughing and talking
with OF the Alabama In the bed alongside hun
The wounded of the sunken privatee7 unmsake
ably English 10 physognomy and failed TO discover ny
who not c0untrymen Of ours. coHversed with all
of them, stating at the outset that was Enslsbman
like themselves and the information seemed to open their
hearts to me- They represented themselves very
Portable the hospital that every thing they asked for
given them and that they surprised at the kind
of the Kesrsarge VINO same TO visit ths estab
lshment when they assured by their own officers
before the action that foul treatment would only be shown
them in the event OF their capture. Condong with one
poor fellow who had his log carried away by she'll he
remarked to me, Ah it rRht they won't catch
mo fighting again without knowing what I'm fighting for
That's oo" said another poor Englisbm,n alongside
him.
The paroled prisoners -four oicers) on shore at Cher
bourg epnced hostility whatever to their csptors but
always on the friendest of terms with them. All
alike frequented the same hotel 10 the town. Cautiously
enouah"Ih he Fage played billiards at the same cafe,
and bought their pipes cigars and tobacco from the
pretty little brunette on the Quai du Port
The following the names of the officers and Grew Of
the Alabama saved by the Kearsarge:
Francis L. Gait, of Virginia, assistant surgeon. Il
Joseph Wilson, "a lieutenant.
Miles j. Freeman, engineer, Englishman.
Jon w. Pundt, Sd assistant engineer.
Benjamin L. McCaskey boatswain.
william Forrestall, quartermaster Euglshmsp.
Thomas Potter, fireman EnQlshmab.
Samuel Williams fireman. Welshnan.
Patrick Bradley, fireman, Englishman.
John Origin, fireman, Irishman
George Freemante, seaman, Engishman
Edgar Trip seaman, Englishman.
John Neil, seaman, EDglishman.
Thomas Winter, fireman, EDglisbman.
Martin King, seaman,
Joseph Pearson, Seaman, Englishman.
James Hicks, captain hold, Englishman.
r. Parkinson, wsrdroom steward, Enelishmsn.
John Emory, seaman, Enelishmsn.
Thomas l.. Parker, boy, Engishman
Peter Hughes, captain top, Englisbman.
(A the above belonged to the Alabama when she first
sailed from the Mersey, and John Nell John Emory and
Peter Hughes belong to the Royal Naval Reserve ."
William Clark, seaman William Miller ord seaman
David LeRgett George Cousey,
Samuel Henry Thomas Brandon,
John Russell I" VIM Mckenzie, coxswain.
John Smith, James Broderick I"
Henry Mccoy, VIM Wilson,
Edward Bussell I" Edw. Raves mast at aru Q
James Ochure, lily. Tucker, officers cook.
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