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Entered according to
Act of Congress, in the Year 1861, by Harper & Brothers, in the Clerk's
Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
LIEUTENANT BRAINE,
U.S.N., COMMANDING THE "MONTICELLO."
[PHOTOGRAPED BY MORAN, OF BROOKLYN, N.Y.]
THE FIGHT AT CHICKAMACOMICO.
WE publish herewith a
portrait of LIEUTENANT BRAINE, U.S.N., commander of the Monticello,
and on page 677 an illustration of the SHELLING OF THE REBELS near Chickamacomico,
North Carolina, by the Monticello. The details of the conflict are
thus accurately described in the Herald's letter from Hatteras: On the morning of the
4th instant, about daylight, the look-outs of Colonel Brown's encampment,
consisting of about eight hundred men of the Twentieth Indiana regiment,
located some thirty miles above this place, reported six rebel steamers,
with schooners and flat-boats in tow, all loaded with troops, coming
out of Croatan Sound and steering straight for the encampment. There
was no time to be lost, for it was evident their numbers were too great
to resist without artillery, supported as they would be by the guns
of the steamers. The Colonel immediately dispatched a courier to inform
Colonel Hawkins, at Fort Hatteras, of his situation, stating that he
would retreat to the light-house on the Cape, and there make a stand. The steamers landed about
fifteen hundred men three miles above Colonel Brown, and then came on
down, throwing shells into the tents, destroying them, also a house
which had been used as a hospital, killing what sick remained therein.
They then passed on down and commenced landing troops below, intending
to cut off all re-treat, and, having them between their two forces,
make sure, no doubt, of bagging Colonel Brown and his men at their leisure.
But they were not quick enough; for Colonel B. hastily destroyed what
he could not carry off with him, and left on the double quick, and succeeded
in reaching the light-house about nine in the evening, having per-formed
a rapid march through the heavy sand. Colonel Hawkins, upon
receiving the information from Colonel Brown, dispatched a note to Captain
Lardner, of the Susquehanna, informing him of the condition of affairs,
and then started on the double quick, with six companies of his Zouaves,
to reinforce the retreating troops. Captain Lardner immediately got
the Susquehanna under way, at the same time ordering the Monticello
to do the same, and proceeded up and anchored in Light-house cove, about
eight o'clock in the evening, within half gunshot of the light. At the
request of Colonel Hawkins, Capt. Lardner remained at anchor to protect
the troops against such superior numbers as were supposed to be in pursuit
of them. He at the same time ordered the Monticello to double Cape Hatteras,
and proceed close along the shore, and see if he could discover any
traces of the enemy. lie had proceeded but a short distance when the
rebels were discovered in full plume and within half gunshot ; the Monticello
opened fire on them at once with shells that
exploded with the utmost
precision, scattering them in all directions, killing and wounding them
by hundreds. The fire continued till night, when they escaped.
LIEUTENANT DANIEL LAWRENCE
BRAINE
was born in New York,
May 18, 1829, therefore is 32 years of age. His mother was a Miss Hamilton,
and father A. L. Braine, both New Yorkers. He entered the navy, as midshipman,
May 30, 1846, at the age of 17; received his present commission in 1855.
Of the fifteen years in the navy nearly twelve have been passed at sea.
Was on hoard the John d dams at the bombardment of Vera Cruz; on board
the St. Louis when Duncan N. Ingraham demanded the release of Kotszka
; on coast-survey duty at Charleston and
James River, under J. N. Maffit's
command, for two years ; then ordered to the coast of Africa; returned
with a slaver. Was a few months on board the receiving ship North Carolina,
and was ordered from there to join
the Roanoke, stationed at Aspinwall.
He sailed in the North Star October 20, 1859, to join his ship. She
ran aground, and Lieutenant Braine took a boat and went to Fortune Island
for assistance to the steamer. He was two days in an open boat. Returned
to the United States with the Japanese Embassy; and again received orders
to the North Carolina, where he remained until last spring, when he
volunteered to join Captain Ward's flotilla; but ere the flotilla sailed
Lieutenant Braine was detailed by the flag-officer to take command of
the Monticello at one day's notice, and the, Monticello sailed for
Fortress
Monroe. The Monticello was in the expedition to Hatteras, where she
got aground ; eleven shots struck her, and she was sent to the Philadelphia
Navy-yard for repairs. She has captured several vessels; and this last
affair at
Hatteras Inlet shows that her first lieutenant—now ordered
by the Department commander of the Monticello—has ever been active and
prompt.
Our portrait of LIEUTENANT
BRAINE is from a photograph by Messrs. A. MORAND & Co., of 297 Fulton
Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., whose establishment is one of the best and
most extensive in the country.
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