knocked down and that some injuries were suffered from blows with hatchets, one of which caused a profuse loss of blood, but this was the limit of personal suffering inflicted by the raiders. The passengers of both boats, after some detention in the cabin and hold of the _Parsons_, were put ashore on the island, as were most of the two crews, a few men being retained on the _Parsons_ to handle her. The soldiers were paroled not to bear arms against the Confederacy until regularly exchanged, and the civilians were required to promise that they would say nothing of what had happened for twenty-four hours. Then the two steamers, lashed abreast, got under way, but after going about five miles, the _Queen_ was scuttled and set adrift, after wards sinking on Chickanolee Reef. The _Parsons_ continued on her way toward Sandusky for a time, but owing to a failure to receive at Kelly’s Island a messenger from Cole, all the party except Beall, Burley, and two others, weakened at the prospect of attacking the _Michigan_ with hatchets and revolvers. Beall regarded their prudence as mutiny, and required from them a written statement, which was drawn up on the back of a bill of lading and can be found with the names of the signers in Capt. T. T. Hines’s account of the affair in vol. 2 of the _Southern Bivouac_. With great reluctance on the part of Beall, the boat’s head was turned toward the Detroit River, and the residents of Middle Bass, who were out burying their valuables, saw her steaming by in the darkness, “like a scared pickerel.” On the way a Confederate flag was hoisted, the mate, Nicholls, being required to assist in the unpleasant task of getting it up, and there was some talk of attacking a vessel or two that were passed and of robbing the island home of a Detroit banker named Ives. A boat load of plunder was landed near Malden, and at Sandwich the _Parsons_ was abandoned, some of her furniture being put ashore and her injection pipes being cut, so that she would fill and sink. The raiders then disappeared, a couple of them who were later arrested by the Canadian authorities being discharged by a justice of the peace after a detention of two hours.