info on ironclad capture by CSA cavalry... (fwd)

Richard Lowe (fd78@jove.acs.unt.edu)
Tue, 27 Sep 1994 14:47:23 -0500

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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 14:25:40 -0500
From: Kenneth Byrd <kbyrd@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU>
To: H-CivWar messages <H-CivWar@UICVM.UIC.EDU>
Subject: info on ironclad capture by CSA cavalry...

I am looking for additional references re the capture of the USS
PETREL, an ironclad gunboat, on the Yazoo River in 1863 by Confederate
cavalry commanded by Col. John Griffith of the 11th & 17th Ark. Mount. Inf.
I am familiar with the brief account in the _Confederate Veteran_ and the
accounts in the _O.R._ (both army and navy volumes). Does anyone have any
additional _detailed_ accounts of the action? Thanks!!