...ifficult to hold owing to unforeseen circumstances. Fort Ocracoke, on the inlet of that name, twenty miles south of Hatteras, was abandoned by the enemy soon after the fall of Forts Hatteras and Clark , and was destroyed by a party from the U. S. S. Pawnee, who rendered useless twenty-two guns and a quantity of munitions of war. The closing of these inlets to the Sounds of North Carolina sent t...