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The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], Capture of gunboats in North Carolina--interesting description of the affair. (search)
f all was directed to the schooner, which bore them away as a stiff breeze carried them fast down the river. Had it been calm, the entire crew would have been ours; but let us rest content with what was done. They left in the utmost confusion, leaving everything they had, their, rifles, cutlasses, books caps, shoes, and even their beef and crackers half done.--Whether any of them were killed is not known. The shell fell all around her. On her passage up the river she was fired into by Lieut. Shamans and his picket, with what effect is not known. She accomplished nothing at all. Our pickets burned the schooner that was ready for sea. All the papers the steamer got at Jacksonville must have been lost. She luckily for herself, stole a schooner in which to make her escape and was fore a by forty-five men to abandon her element of power, iron gunboat. The officers and men engaged are deserving of especial praise. Her cannon magazine, chests, water-tanks, boiler, and a vast quantity o