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GALLANT EXPLOIT: REBEL SCHOONER BURNED

Scanned from Frank Leslie'S Illustrated Newspaper, 1861
GALLANT EXPLOIT: REBEL SCHOONER BURNED
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Sent rk S rated BST NvT of toria LW and with ail to GALLANT EXPLOIT The Rebel Schooner Judith Burnt bythe Federal Forces at the Navy Yard Pensacola Wr illustrate today as daring a deed as any of the last war the burning of the privateer Judith on the 13th September under the very guns of the Confederates. We avail ourselves of Major Vogdes of Fort Pickens spirited account of the affair Three barges from the Colorado containing 20 sailors and 65 marines under the command of Lieutenant Russell arrived at the fort shortly after dark lastnight Captain Reynolds of the marines and one or two midshipmen accompanied the expedition. Upon each barge a 12pound howitzer was mounted loaded with grape aud shrapnel. The officers and men disembarked at the fort and remained on shore until about one oclock then again embarked and made their way towards the Navy Yard Arriving within a few hundred yards the boats separated one making for the schooner Jadith lying alongside the dock a short distance off from the battery where the 10inch columbiad is mounted.

The second boat headed for the dock while the third lay off a short distance to cover the.

OCR may contain errors typical of early 20th-century print scans. Punctuation and paragraph breaks have been reconstructed for readability.