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The two officers and ten men that had been sent off to the Chateaugay / after she got under way, had evidently been considered necessary by the / authorities on shore after the receipt of the intelligence that another / vessel for the Confederates had been sent to Bermuda. A steamer had / arrived that day from Liverpool, and Captain Passford must have received / his mail after he landed from the tug. Captain Chantor had waited / several hours for the signal to get under way, and there had been time / enough to obtain the reinforcement from the Navy Yard.
The officer in command of the detachment of sailors said that he had / been ordered to follow the Chateaugay, and he had been provided with a / fast boat for this purpose. The steamer proceeded on her course as soon / as the transport boat had cast off her fasts, and everything suddenly / quieted down on board of her. The distance between the Ionian and the / man-of-war was soon reduced to about a mile. It was beginning to grow / dark, but the crew had been stationed and billed while the ship lay off / the Navy Yard; but the new hands sent on board were assigned to watches / and quarter-watches, stationed and billed, as though they were a part of / the regular ship's company. One of the two additional officers was / placed in each of the watches.