Named Entity Results, Wilmington, N. C. (North Carolina, United States)

Doc. 65.-capture of the Calypso. United States steamer Florida, stationed off Wilmington, N. C., at 7 P. M., 40 miles South of Cape Fear, June 11, 1863. This afternoon we gained permission from the flag-ship Sacramento, to go off fishing a few miles outside the blockaders that lay huddled together some four miles off Fort Caswell and the mouth of the Cape Fear River. The result of which was some fine fishing and finer catching; for, by getting well out from the land, we were enabled to spy a rebel steamer which we saw as a faint speck on the distant horizon, where she lay waiting for nightfall to screen her as she ran in. We signalled to the fleet that we saw a suspicious sail, and immediately got under way and gave chase. For the first half-hour we gained upon her fast, but then she espied us making for her, a line of black smoke streamed up into the sky and she took to her heels; but our steamer is fast, and continued to gain upon her; the first hour of the chase is ne

y during the war, Major Jacobs destroyed and laid in ruins the costly structure known as the Rocky Mount railroad bridge over Tar River, on the line of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, and the connecting link, by this route, of Richmond with Wilmington and the far South. The bridge was the most expensive to construct in the State, and was over four hundred feet long. It will take weeks, perhaps months, to reconstruct and to rebuild the trestle-work also destroyed. The demolition of this br on the first day's march of the cavalry, as a support, but had returned to Newbern some time before the cavalry came back. The aggregate amount of rebel property destroyed on the expedition cannot be less than five millions of dollars, while the value of mischief done to their facilities for railroad transportation on the Wilmington and Weldon road is incalculable. A pretty good week's work for the little but noble band of heroes who are serving their country en cheval in North-Carolina.

Doc. 142.-cruise of the Florida. Official rebel account. C. S. Steamer Florida, St. George's, Bermuda, July 21, 1863. To the Editors of The Daily Journal. Wilmington, N. C. you and your readers are doubtless well aware that this steamer ran out of the harbor of Mobile on the sixteenth day of January, 1863, so I will say nothing on that head, but endeavor to give you a full account of what we have done since. Our first work was the hermaphrodite brig Estelle, of Boston, on her first voyage and homeward bound from Santa Cruz, with a full cargo of sugar and honey for the good people of Boston. But we consigned her to Old Father Neptune. She was valued at one hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars. In Havana we received our coal, stores, etc. At daylight on the morning of the twenty-second of January we catted our anchor and ran along the, coast eastward, and at eleven A. M. captured and burned the hermaphrodite brig Windward, from Matanzas, bound to Portland, and j

Doc. 153.-destruction of the Alexander Cooper. Report of Lieutenant Cushing. United States steamer Shockokon, off Wilmington, N. C., August 26, 1863. sir: I have the honor to report that we have destroyed the blockade-running schooner Alexander Cooper, under the following circumstances: On the twelfth I made a reconnissance with boats in New-Topsail Inlet, and was driven out by four pieces of artillery stationed opposite the mouth, but not before I had discovered a schooner at a wharf some six miles up the sound. This schooner I determined to destroy, and as it was so well guarded, I concluded to use strategy. On the evening of the twenty-second the Shockokon anchored close into the sea-beach, about five miles from the inlet, and I sent ashore two boats' crews, who shouldered the dingui, and carried it across the neck of land that divides the sea from the sound. This was about half a mile in width, and covered with a dense thicket. The crossing placed my men some m

Doc. 204.-destruction of the Venus. Lieutenant Commanding Lamson's report. United States steamer Nansemond, off New-Inlet, Wilmington, N. C., October 21, 186. sir: I have the honor to report the capture and entire destruction of the blockade-runner Venus, from Nassau to Wilmington, with a cargo of lead, drugs, dry goods, bacon, and coffee. This morning at half-past 12 she attempted to run the blockade, but was discovered by this vessel, and after a short chase overhauled. WhenWilmington, with a cargo of lead, drugs, dry goods, bacon, and coffee. This morning at half-past 12 she attempted to run the blockade, but was discovered by this vessel, and after a short chase overhauled. When abeam I opened fire on her--one shot striking her foremast; another exploding in her wardroom; a third passing through forward, and killing one man; and a fourth striking under the guard near the water-line, knocking in an iron plate, and causing her to make water fast, she was run ashore. We boarded her at once, capturing her captain and twenty-two of her officers and crew. The United States steamer Niphon, Acting-Master J. B. Breck commanding, which was lying near where she went ashore, c