Halt Plot to Burn Union Boat
'An alert lookout on the Union ship The Nationalist is responsible for thwarting a Confederate plot to burn the boat. Davis Durron
was at his post when he saw "a raft burning brightly at one end" moving through the darkness toward the ship. Pushing the raft from
a canoe, three Southern loyalists hoped to destroy The Nationalist. Once alerted, the crew of the ship opened fire at the men in the
canoe. Bullets splashed harmelessly in the water, missing their targets at first. But as the raft edged closer to the boat, the men
were silhouetted by the flames and gunned down. The treacherous plot having failed, the flaming raft drifted out to sea.'
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