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The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], The capture of the Henry Lewis. (search)
quick time. But too late --one of the accursed Yankee steamers was in close pursuit, which fired three times. The Lewis soon run aground about one mile from shore, when the enemy's launch boarded her, got her off, and in a ittle time as it takes me to write the occurrence the poor Lewis was disappearing in the gap pass between Horn and Ship Islands.--This took place within two and a half miles from my house. The Federal steamer then took a position several miles east of the west end of Horn Island, in the Sound, crouched ready to pounce on some new, unsuspecting victims. She did not have to wait long, for at about 12 o'clock M., a large topsail, double-jib schooner appeared from the west, and, strange to say, bore right up to the enemy, when she could have easily escaped, as the wind blew fresh from the south. She made no effort to run away. The steamer's launch boarded her, and without changing her couzes took her to the steamer, which towed her off towards Ship Island, their d