WASHINGTON, March 31. – The Secretary of the Navy received a
dispatch from Com. Dupont, dated of [Mosquito] Inlet, Florida, March 24th,
giving a detailed account of an affair at that place by which Lieutenant
Commanding Budd and Acting Master Mather and three men were killed. It appears that about 40 men in boats went up
the Inlet and were fired on from an [ambush], by which the above mentioned were
killed and several wounded.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 5, 1862, p. 4
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