orm you that all the survivors have been taken from the
wreck and are now in this harbor, and on the ship "Antarctic" for
Liverpool, except eighteen men that volunteered to remain, and
help work the old bark Kilby into port.

On the 27th of December the bark Kilby of Boston hove in sight,
and her noble commander, Captain Low, said he would lay by us
until the sea would permit him to remove us on board his vessel.
On the 28th, the sea having in a measure become quiet, he came
alongside, sent his boats and removed all the ladies, children,
passengers (citizens), a number of officers, and about fifty
soldiers, when suddenly a squall of wind separated the two
vessels, parting the hawser by which they were attached, and
continued to blow all night a violent gale. This squall came on
so suddenly that my quarter-master and acting adjutant, 1st
Lieutenant Fremont, who came on board the bark for a few hours to
urge the sailors on to renewed exertions, and offer them large
inducements to work the boats all night, was left on the bark
unable to get back.

Brevet Major Wyse, the senior officer, undisabled, was, by my
orders, detailed to superintend the transfer of troops, and was
thus left in command of those remaining on the wreck. For two
days and nights the gale continued, and though we tried
constantly to regain the wreck, it was found impossible to do so,
with the old bark in her crippled condition, and as we were put
on an allowance of bread and water, it was finally resolved to
make if possible an American port.

We drifted before the wind for fifteen days, and were at last,
after living on parched corn five days, taken off by the packet
ship Lucy Thompson, of this port, Captain Pendleton, a noble
hearted sailor.

I cannot close this brief report without expressing my high
admiration of the noble conduct of every undisabled officer, and
most of the men. Brevet Major Wyse, Captain Judd, my only staff
officer (quartermaster and acting adjutant), 1st Lieutenant
Fremont, who, in addition to his own duties, served at the (p. 416)
pumps, 1st Lieutenant Loeser, acting Commissary, 1st
Lieutenant W. A. Winder, 2d Lieutenants C. S. Winder, Van Voast,
and Chandler.

These officers, some of them though slightly disabled, never
faltered