It was espied by the "Dolphin" and driven back.

It tried the other end with like results, and for an hour this game of hide-and-seek was kept up, to the discomfiture of the train.

While waiting for the train to appear at either end, the gallant little gunboat shelled a small blockhouse, and in time disabled it.

Then she steamed back to the fleet and reported that she had "wrecked a trainload of troops and dismantled a blockhouse." When she left for her station again she was applauded by the whole squadron.

We learned later that one hundred and fifty men were killed on the train.
Shortly after supper the "Yankee's" whaleboat was called away and sent to the flagship, returning an hour later with sealed orders from the admiral.
At midnight we quietly steamed from our station and passed out to sea, our destination being unknown to all save the commanding officer..