Part 3

What Mr. Milton Webster says of the Brush 36

Up Alligator River 38

Up Frying-pan River 39

Cushing the Brave 40

Meeting Cushing for the First Time 40

His Arriving Aboard the Valley City 41

Blowing up the Ram Albemarle 41

Three Cheers for Cushing 42

Cushing's Official Report 45

New York Herald's Dispatches 49

Mr. Galen H. Osborne's Dispatch 49

Mr. Oscar G. Sawyer's Dispatch 52

The Hero of the Albemarle in Washington, D.C. 62

The Valley City on the Dry Dock for Repairs 63

From Gosport, Va., to Plymouth, N.C. 63

During the Month of November, 1864 63

Ashore for the First Time at Plymouth 64

Ashore at Newbern 64

Cruising 65

Rainbow Bluff. How a Fleet went up the Roanoke and came down again 65

New York Herald's Dispatch 77

Thanks of the Officers of the Otsego to Captain Wood 86

That Old Family Bible 87

The Valley City and Her Officers 89

Cruising 92

Chincapin Ridge 98

Cruising 100

Farewell to the Officers and Crew of the Valley City 110