Identifier: cu31924075243828 (find matches)
Title: Life of Capt. Joseph Fry, the Cuban martyr. Being a faithful record of his remarkable career from childhood to the time of his heroic death at the hands of Spanish executioners; recounting his experience as an officer in the U. S. and Confederate navies, and revealing much of the inner history and secret marine service of the late Civil War in America
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Walker, Jeanie Mort
Subjects: Fry, Joseph, 1826-1873 Virginius (Steamer)
Publisher: Hartford, J. B. Burr
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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II. Fry placed on the Examining Board. — Visits variousCities. — Put in Command of the Eugenie. — GreatSuccess. — Stationed at St. Thomas, Bermuda, asGovernment Agent. — Sent to Scotland for a Block-ade-runner. — Pleasing Incident. — Makes severalSuccessful Trips in the Ship Agnes E. Fry. — Sunkin Cape Fear River. — Captain Fry in Mobile Bay. —The great Naval Fight. — Preparations to run theBlockade. — Transferred to the Morgan. — ClosingScenes of the War. — Tribute to the Memory ofCaptain Fry by a Brother Officer. — Frys greatBravery during the Fight in Mobile Bay. After his exchange, Fry rejoined his family?then in Georgia, and remained with them forseveral months, in wretched health from hiswound and the privations he had endured. Unable to remain long inactive while hisservices w*ere needed by his country, he, withhis arm still in a sling, applied for orders. Hewas ordered to Richmond, where he was placedon the Examining Board, visiting Charleston 166
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SAVES A POWDER SHIP. 169 Savannah, Montgomery, Mobile, and other south-ern cities in the performance of his officialduties. When his health was sufficiently restored toadmit of more active service, he was placed incommand of the government blockade-runnerEugenie, sailing under the Confederate flag inhis official capacity. Here he proved himself a skillful, daring com-manderj ahd met with remarkable success. Here,too, he exhibited the same indomitable couragefor. which he had already distinguished himself;the same seli^sacrificing spirit in the cause ofduty, and the same pure humanity. On one occasion the Eugenie, when comingin loaded with gunpowder, ran on the bar out-side of Fort Fisher, within range of the gunsof the blockading squadron. Fry was orderedfrom the fort to abandon his vessel in order tosave his crew from what was considered an in-evitable explosion. Determined to save his shipor perish with her, he sent ofl^ in small boats,all of the men who would go; and then remained

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