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boarded the Bayou City, after sculling out in a skiff, and went on
board the Harriet Lane to find Commodore Leon Smith.
Colonel Tom Green, and Captain Henry S. Lubbock, were at
once sent down the harbor by Commodore Leon Smith, in one of
the quarter boats of the Harriet Lane to demand the surrender of
the rest of the fleet. Captain Lubbock found Captain Law on
board the U. S. Gunboat Clifton, and agreed upon a two hours'
truce to allow him to confer with his commander, Commodore Ren-
shaw, who was still on board the Westfield aground in Bolivar
Channel. Colonel Green and Captain Lubbock then returned to
the shore to report to the general commanding. In the meantime,
the Confederate steam tender John F. Carr, after fruitless et-
tempts to free the Bayou City from the Harriet Lane, under or-
ders of Commodore Leon Smith had given over the effort and now
conveyed him down the harbor to see what success Colonel Green
and Captain Lubbock had attained towards the surrender of the,
United States vessels.15
The Lucy Gwinn, Major McKee, was signaled by orders of Gen-
eral Magruder to tow the two vessels to the wharf and land them
at the foot of Bath Avenue when they were taken in charge by
Major Philip C. Tucker, under orders from General Magruder.
While the wounded and prisoners were being removed to the
shore, the gunboat Owasco on the way down the harbor with a flag
of truce at her masthead, fired upon the Harriet Lane with shrap-
nel and shell. One eleven-inch shell just grazed the main deck as
it crashed through both sides of the vessel, just above her maga-
zines. The evident intention was to explode the magazine and
thus destroy the ship.16
Meanwhile the flagship, Westfield, aground down the harbor, had
been abandoned and a train laid to her magazine. The explosion
not occurring as soon as expected, Commodore Renshaw with his
boat crew of seventeen men and three officers returned aboard, just
in time to be overwhelmed by her destruction at 8:45 a. m. The
other gunboats, Clifton, Sachem, and Owasco steamed out of the
harbor with flags of truce still at their mastheads and headed for
1H. S. Lubbook's Deposition before Prize Commissioners, 18,63. MS. in
P. C. Tucker Collection.
1Statements of Jos. Aiken of Galveston, signal corps C. S. A., W. P.
Doran, and P. C. Tucker 2d.368
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