Olustee, Fla

At this place, February 20, 1864, Seymour, commanding 6,000 of Gill more’s Federal army then operating in the Department of the South, fell in with a Confederate ambush of nearly 13,000 men under Finnegan. Gill more had ordered Seymour to give up his contemplated expedition to the Suwanee River, but the order came too late. Seymour was wholly defeated in le than half an hour, and had to retreat with great haste, leaving 1,400 killed and wounded. ‘¢Olympia,’’ name of the protected cruiser and Dewey’s flagship at the battle of Manila Bay, May 1, 1898. The ‘‘ Olympia’s’’ keel was laid in 1891; she has a displacement of 5,870 tons, a speed of 21 knots, has 17,313 horse-power and cost $1,796,000. Her armament consists of ten 5-in. rapid fire guns, four 8-in. breech-loading rifles mounted in barbette turrets, armor 3% and 4% in. She has a secondary battery that comprises fourteen 6-pounders rapid fire, seven 1-pounders rapid fire, and one Gatling. At the time of the fight Captain Charles V. Gridley was in command of the ‘‘ Olympia,’’ who had been seriously ill several weeks but rose from his bed to participate in the battle; the exertion and excitement of which brought on a hemorrhage from which he died a few days later while in Hong Kong, en route for home. His remains were brought to America and buried at his old home place, Erie, in Pennsylvania.