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L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, chapter 3.57 (search)
anchor in the sound, awaiting the appearance of the Albemarle, a most formidable rebel iron-clad ram, whose recent exploits in sinking two of our gunboats, near Plymouth, rendered the prolonged occupation of the sound by our forces somewhat uncertain and problematical. To the three vessels above named had been especially assignenion fleet, with the Miami, had been sent up to the mouth of the Roanoke, with the design of decoying the rebel ram from under the protection of the batteries at Plymouth into the open waters of the sound. The ruse succeeded, and falling back before the Albemarle, as she left her moorings to pursue them, they quickly drew her inern-wheel steamer, which was afterward ascertained to be the Cotton Plant, cotton-clad, and manned by two hundred sharpshooters and boarders, put hastily back to Plymouth. The other steamer, which proved to be the Bombshell, closed up on the ram's quarter, in readiness for the coining conflict. Sweeping gracefully along, under
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, chapter 3.58 (search)
ars, up the arrow Roanoke, he skilfully eluded the observation of the numerous forts and pickets with which that river was lined, and passing within twenty yards of a picket vessel, without detection, he soon found himself abreast of the town of Plymouth. The night was very dark and stormy, and having thus cleared the pickets, the launch crossed to the other side of the river opposite the town, and sweeping round, came down upon the Albemarle from up the stream. The ram was moored near a wharfe guns of the ram. The Albemarle had one of her bows stove in by the explosion of the torpedo, and sank at her moorings within a few moments, without loss of life to her crew. Her fate opened the river to the Union forces, who quickly occupied Plymouth — the North Carolina sounds were again cleared from rebel craft, and the large fleet of vessels, which had been occupied in watching the iron-clad, were released from that arduous duty. Lieutenant Cushing, to whose intrepidity and skill the cou