May 20, 1862.  The first thing in the morning saw the smoke of the turpentine burning & thought something unusual was to pay down the river, so Henry went over to see Clark & heard that Winston's company had an engagement with a gunboat yesterday, none killed on our side, the boat turned right back.  Winston returned home about the middle of the afternoon, brought a bomb & a piece of one which burst near him

[Rebecca] May 20, 1862. Soon after sunrise we see that smoke from the burning turpentine and as soon as we have breakfasted Henry rides over to the mill to learn the news from camp – He returns with intelligence that two gunboats attempted to come up the river and were fired upon by the St. John’s Rangers. The gunboats turned back and went down some miles – No one hurt in the company, but think they did some injury to the enemy. About 4 o’clk P.M. Winston comes – He confirms the report heard in the morng. except that only one gunboat came above Palatka, the large one which attempted it the Monday previous.