Washington County MD Archives News.....Another Naval Disaster February 27, 1863
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Maryland Free Press. (Hagerstown [Md.]) February 27, 1863
Our navy has met with another disaster in the capture, by the Confederates, of the
crack iron clad boat, Queen of the West, on the Red River. The officers of the Queen
of the West captured a rebel pilot, and putting him at the Wheel, with a file of
soldiers around him, compelled him to steer the boat to the Rebel batteries, which
he done but too effectually, taking her close under the guns. Amid the confusion
aboard the boat the Pilot leaped overboard and escaped, the colors were struck and
the boat captured. 


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