We were taken by surprise, no intimation of their approach being given until the firing commenced.At the first or second round the starboard engine was disabled by a shell, and the effectiveness of the port one much injured by a piece of the same passing through the steam pipe.After fighting fifteen or twenty minutes, the boat being completely riddled with shell and rifle balls, Captain Hickey decided to surrender her, telling the officers and men they could choose between being prisoners or jumping into the water to escape. Queen City, lying at anchor off Clarendon, was attacked this morning between 3 and 4 o'clock by General Shelby, with two regiments of cavalry and four pieces of artillery. Report of Acting Assistant Surgeon Westfall, U.
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He was wounded in action (WIA) (see below). Westfall became an Acting Assistant Surgeon in 1863 and was honorably discharged in 1865. This is a cdv of a Civil War Naval Officer.
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