April 14, 1863. Two gun boats and a transport came down this morning having captured the rebel ram, Queen of the West, or rather destroyed her, and captured her commander, the notorious Fuller, with several other officers and 72 men. 49 were killed on the Queen, but not a man injured on our side. [See note 128]

[128] On the morning of April 14 the Union gunboats Estrella, Arizona, and Calhoun sank the Confederate ram Queen of the West in nearby Grand Lake. Ninety men, including Captain E. W. Fuller, who was known as "King of the Swamp" according to Banks, were rescued from the sinking ram and taken prisoner, but at least thirty others drowned. Fuller was taken to Fort Delaware, where he died in prison. "A braver man," according to Taylor, "never lived." [Note 128]

[Diary of a Christian Soldier: Rufus Kinsley and the Civil War, Rufus Kinsley, David C. Rankin, pp. 127/246, n.128]

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