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The Albemarle in the Sound
--Terrible Naval Engagement.--The Goldsboro' State Journal has the following graphic account of the recent naval engagement in Albemarle Sound, kindly furnished by a friend:
One of the severest naval fights of the war came off below here yesterday, in the Albemarle Sound.
Our iron clad, Albemarle, accompanied by one small gunboat which our forces captured at this place, started upon an expedition for Newbern.--Doubtless you are now looking for her in the rear of that place.
When they entered the Sound and got about twenty miles from the mouth of the Roanoke they were attacked by twelve large steamers, (Yankee,) four of them man of war. They sunk our little gunboat the first fire and took the crew prisoners, numbering about 25 men. But the iron-clad stood the test.
The enemy fought her at very close quarters; poured broadside after broadside upon her with about eighty guns at a time, but she would give them her two guns in return.
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