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Here I found the OR... there were other vessels that render help... save over 200 lives...
http://www.gendisasters.com/maryland/6300/aquia-creek-va-steamers-collide-potomac-river-aug-1862
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Washington, Thursday, Aug. 14.
There is news here of a horrible disaster to one of the vessels lately loaded with patients from the Peninsula hospitals. At 2 o'clock this afternoon, the steamer GEORGE PEABODY, loaded with sick and wounded soldiers, was run into and sunk by the steamer WEST POINT, opposite Acquia Creek.
There was great danger of losing the whole number on board, but it is stated that finally only eighty were lost.
http://www.gendisasters.com/maryland/6300/aquia-creek-va-steamers-collide-potomac-river-aug-1862
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Washington, Thursday, Aug. 14.
There is news here of a horrible disaster to one of the vessels lately loaded with patients from the Peninsula hospitals. At 2 o'clock this afternoon, the steamer GEORGE PEABODY, loaded with sick and wounded soldiers, was run into and sunk by the steamer WEST POINT, opposite Acquia Creek.
There was great danger of losing the whole number on board, but it is stated that finally only eighty were lost.