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                        Achilles, Potomac River, travelling to Alexandria, VA text Letter to Margaret Sturgis, aboard the 
                        Achilles, Potomac River, travelling to Alexandria, VA 2021 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt78sf2m7c9x/data/1997ms469/Box_1/Folder_9/Multipage34.pdf 1862 April 5 1862 1862 April 5 
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To Mother. Travelling along the Potomac, just off Indian Head, on the way to Alexandria. Nine or ten heavy guns were fired at 
                         from the shore north of Cherrystone Light, towing five schooners. Sturgis thinks it was possibly a U.S. Union battery who mistook the 
                         for the enemy. The 
                         was stranded, and the 
                         with the 
                         and 
                         try to pull out the ship with no success. Afterwards, they took the 
                        , 
                        , and three schooners in tow with them to Alexandria. Sturgis located the 20th Massachusetts and meets with friend, Nate Hayward.
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