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February 36 Telescope Island Queen was the smaller of the two steamers seized in the Confederate raid. She is shown here in a water color painting by Father Dowling. The larger steamer, Philo Parsons, appears in a second Dowling water color on our front cover._______________ awaiting a signal from the inside, started for the Detroit River, stopping at Fighting Island on the Canada side, at 8 o'clock this a.m., where Capt. Orr and his clerk were landed. The Parsons was then run up the river to a dock, where the captain supposes the plunder was landed and the steamer burned, as preparations were made for that object. He has no doubt that the seizure of the U. S. Steamer Michigan and liberation of the Johnson's Island prisoners were the object of the plot. Both steamers were stripped of their valuables. THE DETROIT FREE PRESS Thursday, September 22, 1864 Washington, Sept. 21. Commander Carter of the U. S. Steamer Michigan has telegraphed to the Secretary of the Navy, dating off Johnson's Island today, concerning the capture by pirates of the steamers Philo Parsons and Island Queen. He says they were pursued by him and that he has got the principal agent a prisoner on board and many accomplices. He adds that all is well and safe at present. The object was to capture the steamer Michigan. It further appears that Col. Hall has six of the pirate party on Johnsons Island. THE DETROIT FREE PRESS Saturday, September 24, 1864 The tug Mayflower, Captain Boynton, which left here a day or two since with implements to raise the Island Queen, was prompt in the discharge of that duty. She found that steamer on Chickomolee Reef, having drifted a distance of ten miles from