From the
Richmond
Enquirer, Tuesday,
7/8/1862
THE TEAZER. - This tiny little craft, mounting two guns,
has at length fallen, accidentally, into the hands of the enemy, who will
doubtless magnify its littleness, by swearing to the credulous masses of the
North that she is a first class frigate. She had run ashore, while
reconnoitering about eight or ten miles below Drury’s Bluff, and before she
could be gotten off was captured by one of the enemy’s gunboats, and towed off
by the iron-clad Galena, not, however, before our crew had fired a shot into the
wheelhouse of the gunboat Mustang, her captor, and escaped safely to the Charles
City shore.
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