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The Daily Dispatch: November 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], Perfidy among the blockade Runners. (search)
Perfidy among the blockade Runners. --"Dixie,"the Richmond correspondent of the Atlanta Appeal, writes: The loss of the Venus a week ago at the month of Cape Fear river, was a severe blow to the Quartermaster General, and the casualty was the more lamentable because it was the result of treachery. I have seen and conversed with a gentleman who came passenger on the Venus, and he me that the vessel had nearly got through the blockading squadron without discovery, and in five minutes more would have been safely out of range of the enemy's guns, when some traitor among the crew rang the steamer's bell, thus giving the Yankees the alarm, and indicating in the darkness the exact direction in which they should open fire.--This they did with such fatal accuracy that three men on the deck of the Venus were killed by the first shot. Two other shots successively struck the vessel. At the moment of firing signals were made to all the other ships of the fleet, several of which mov