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The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], Capture of the steamer Chatham. (search)
Capture of the steamer Chatham. --The steamer Chatham, Capt. Martinsborough (now the Ocean Queen,) was captured by the enemy at 2ΒΌ o'clock on Wednesday morning last, twelve miles from Sapeilo Light, in seven fathoms water, on her passage to Green Turtle Key, bound to Nassau. She had a cargo of 302 bales of cotton, 35 boxes tobacco, &c. Two hundred and ninety bales of the cotton was owned by the owners of the steamer, and the balance by the crew. She had a crew of nineteen persons on boarnemy. The enemy discovered the Chatham early in the morning and fired twenty- three shells at her, and then opened with musketry from their boats. The enemy's barges boarded her and took possession of the steamer. Among the captured are Capt. Martinsborough; Archie, mate; Captain Frazier, of Augusta; Evans, shipkeeper; John Parry, first engineer; Joseph Willing, second engineer; John Waters, Patrick Dacey, Chas. Stark, and John Gregor, firemen, all of Savannah; and firemen Thompson, of Darien