May 15th. Was spent in exertions to get our ship afloat. A gunboat was dispatched for a lighter, and we commenced discharging our battery on board a gunboat, and shell on board a steamer, also coal into a lighter.
Cruise of the U.S. Flag-Ship Hartford – From the Personal Journal of Wm. C. Holton
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