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The Daily Dispatch: May 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Combined movement on Richmond — the enemy on the Southside — fight at Chester — the great cavalry Raid, &c. (search)
miles below the town. There, owing to its unwieldy proportions, it stuck fast. This ram draws nine feet of water, and evidently will never be serviceable as the river has fallen several feet within the last few days, and in some places is unnavigable. It is stated that the rebel ram Albemarle if taken down the river could not again go up against the stream, that she is now held up by two tugboats and is leaking badly from the effects of the steel projectile fired from the 200 pounder Parrott in the water battery near Plymouth. This shot is said to have shaken the ram from stem to stern. The pilot who brought the ram down the river was in the town of Plymouth two days previous, taking observations. A rebel brigade, under the command of Coarse, computed at about 2,000 strong, is still between this point and Kinston. The day before yesterday they advanced to within fourteen or fifteen miles of the town, and then marched back. It is somewhat of a mystery that the r