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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 40: (search)
of assistance from the Navy, the Secretary of the Navy sent to the Speaker copies of a number of communications, among them the following: Navy Department, September 17, 1863. Sir — I have the honor to present for your consideration a subject of great importance connected with the maintaining possession of the sounds of North Carolina. Information received from time to time places it beyond doubt that the rebels are constructing, and have almost completed, at Edward's Ferry, near Weldon, on the Roanoke River, a ram and an ironclad floating battery. It is reported that these vessels will be completed in the course of five or six weeks. It is further reported that an attack on Plymouth is contemplated by land and water. Our force of wooden vessels in the sounds, necessarily of light draft and lightly armed, will by no means be adequate to contend against the rebel ram and battery should they succeed in getting down the Roanoke, and, in that event, our possession of the so