The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], The loss of the steamer Nashville

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The loss of the steamer Nashville

The Nashville, which was burnt near Savannah, on the end instant, was a blockade sunning Confederate steamer, with 920 bales of cotton aboard, trying to get out. She go aground in the Reach on Friday, and was fled into by the Montauk, iron-clad, and struck eight times, when the took fire from the shells and was entirely condemned, with her valuable cargo of cotton and all her stores. After she had been on fire some time equality of powder on board, some two hundred pounds, exploded, blowing out the stern of the steamer. Her gens and shells that were loaded also exploded with a terrific report which was heard in Savannah.

The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1863. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. March 7, 1863. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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