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The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1865., [Electronic resource], Runaway.--one thousand Dollars Reward. (search)
Sinking of a Yankee gunboat in Mobile bay. --The New Orleans (Yankee) Era announces the loss of the Yankee gunboat Narcissus, William G. Jones commanding. The letter detailing the event is dated Mobile bay, December 8th and says: "On the night of December 7th she went in on picket duty to the obstructions opposite the city of Mobile. At 7 o'clock P. M. she came to anchor within three hundred yards of the obstructions, in plain view of the rebel rams, picket boats, etc. The night was clear, and with a beautiful moon. At 10:20 P. M. came up a terrific squall from northward. The captain being apprehensive of his vessel grounding, as she was only in eight feet water, the steamer got under way and steamed a mile further out, and came to anchor in nine and a half feet water. The vessel was to an anchor in ten minutes, the wind blowing strong from the northward, and a considerable swell, when all of a sudden a terrific explosion occurred, which lifted the vessel all of five f