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This incident is scarcely of sufficient importance to demand a place in our, except as an illustration of how "history" is manufactured and a small affair magnified into a brilliant achievement by a sensational press.

In the Memoir of Ulric Dahlgren, by his father, Rear Admiral Dahlgren, there is quoted from the account of a newspaper correspondent the following vivid sketch of the affair: