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The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Detailed account of the burning of the AlvaradeMasked Batteries on the Florida Coast. (search)
Detailed account of the burning of the Alvarade — Masked Batteries on the Florida Coast. It was recently stated that the U. S. sloop-of-war Jamestown, Commander Green, seized and burned the bark Alvarado, off Fernandina, Fla., on the 5th ult. It appears she had been captured by the privateer Jeff. Davis, and was stranded on the Florida coast eight hundred yards from shore, to prevent her re-capture by the Jamestown. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, in a letter dated "Off FernFernandina," after giving an account of the pursuit of the Jamestown and the stranding of the Alvarado by her crew, says: Soon after she stranded, her boats were lowered, and her crew escaped, carrying with them, no doubt, all available valuables, and leaving the bark with all sail on, to drift farther in shore, in the vain hope of afterwards getting her off or discharging her cargo in boats. By this time the Jamestown had got near enough, it was thought, to bring the bark within range of her