Excerpt from New Light on the Great Drewry's Bluff Fight: Judge William Izard Clopton's Description of the Naval; Engagement; A Valuable Addition to Civil War History For Second Lieutenant - Spencer D. Ivey, and For Third Lieutenant - Dickerson V. Wilson. All of the lieutenants had been officers in the Chesterfield militia, in which Lieutenant Wilson had held the rank of cap tain. We then returned to our homes subject to a call to service in the Confederate States army, which had been at war with the United States army for about ten months, with varied success, previous to this time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.