nor sailors.

PART II.

APPOINTED A COMMANDER IN THE VIRGINIA NAVY--IN CHARGE OF THE
DEFENSES OF JAMES RIVER--TRANSFERRED TO THE CONFEDERATE
STATES NAVY--PLACED IN COMMAND OF THE _Patrick
Henry_--FITTING OUT UNDER DIFFICULTIES--FIRST PARTIALLY
ARMORED AMERICAN VESSEL. LIEUTENANT POWELL'S PLAN FOR
ARMORED GUNBOATS--OFFICERS OF THE _Patrick
Henry_--GUARDING JAMES RIVER--SCALING THE GUNS--"NAVAL
SKIRMISH"--A FLAG WHICH WAS NOT PRESENTED--BATTLE OF
HAMPTON ROADS. SINKING OF THE _Cumberland_; AN AMERICAN
_Vengeur_--BURNING OF THE _Congress_--COMBAT BETWEEN THE
_Virginia_ AND THE _Monitor_--FLAG-OFFICER TATNALL TAKES
COMMAND OF THE CONFEDERATE SQUADRON--SALLY INTO HAMPTON
ROADS--PLAN FOR CARRYING THE _Monitor_ BY
BOARDING--EVACUATION OF NORFOLK--TOWING UNFINISHED
GUNBOATS TO RICHMOND--FEDERAL SQUADRON ENTERS JAMES
RIVER--CREWS OF THE _Patrick Henry_, _Jamestown_ AND
_Virginia_ MAN THE NAVAL BATTERIES AT DREWRY'S
BLUFF--ACTION AT DREWRY'S BLUFF--THE _Galena_; A
WELL-FOUGHT VESSEL. REPULSE OF THE FEDERAL
SQUADRON--TUCKER ORDERED TO COMMAND THE IRON-CLAD
STEAMER _Chicora_ AT CHARLESTON--SUCCESSFUL ATTACK ON
THE BLOCKADING SQUADRON--TUCKER POSTED AND APPOINTED
FLAG-OFFICER OF THE CHARLESTON SQUADRON--COMMANDING
OFFICERS OF THE CHARLESTON SQUADRON--DUPONT'S ATTACK ON
CHARLESTON--CONFEDERATE TORPEDO-BOATS AT CHARLESTON;
DAMAGE DONE BY THEM--CHARLESTON NAVAL BATTALION SERVING
WITH THE ARMY--EVACUATION OF CHARLESTON--ONE BATTALION OF
THE CHARLESTON SQUADRON SERVES WITH THE ARMY AT
WILMINGTON--TUCKER, WITH THE CHARLESTON SQUADRON BRIGADE,
MARCHES THROUGH NORTH CAROLINA AND ARRIVES AT
RICHMOND--TUCKER ORDERED TO COMMAND AT DREWRY'S
BLUFF--CONFEDERACY AT ITS LAST GASP--EVACUATION OF
RICHMOND--TUCKER NOT INFORMED OF THE INTENTION TO
EVACUATE RICHMOND--SUCCEEDS IN JOINING HIS BRIGADE OF
SAILORS TO MAJOR-GEN. CUSTIS LEE'S DIVISION--ACTION AT
SAYLOR'S CREEK; DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE WHIPPED, THOUGHT
THE FIGHT HAD JUST BEGUN--SURRENDER--PRISONER OF
WAR--RELEASED ON PAROLE--EMPLOYED BY THE SOUTHERN EXPRESS
COMPANY

Tucker was appointed a Commander in the Virginia Navy, with rank from
the date of the commission in the United St