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The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], Capture of gunboats in North Carolina--interesting description of the affair. (search)
Capture of gunboats in North Carolina--interesting description of the affair. The "terrible" gunboats are meeting with disaster after disaster, It is clear that they cannot operate in narrow rivers, whose banks are inhabited by bold and determined men. Two cases have occurred in North Carolina. In one, Capt. Newkirk's cavalry, with a place of artillery, captured an iron steamer in New river, N. C, and in the other, Capt. Whitford's Rangers captured a gunboat and her entire crew in Bay river, N. C. Of the first capture, a correspondent of the Wilmington (N. C.) Journal gives an interesting account. The steamer entered New river, in Onslow county, on the morning of the 24th ult. The letter says: Her arrival was duly noticed and promptly reported by Capt. Ward's pickets to the proper authority, when Capt Newkirk, with a detachment of the Rebel Rangers, together with Lieut. Latham with one piece of the Kennedy Artillery, proceeded to the mouth of New river to pay her their re