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The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], Confederate States congress. (search)
Running the blockade. --The British iron screw steamer Georgianna, Capt. Hudson, left Marson (N. P.) on Sunday afternoon, March 15th, for Charleston, having on board a valuable cargo of medicines, dry goods, and some six pieces of field artillery of the Whitworth and Blakely patterns. About one o'clock on Thursday morning, off Dewess's Breakers, the made a schooner and a steamer. These although very close, were passed successfully, and without notice; but, on proceeding a short distance, she discovered several others ahead, and a rocket about this time going up, the blockaders soon commenced chasing and firing.--The Charleston Mercury says: The Georgiana kept on her course for the bar-until her rudder was disabled by the explosion of a shell under her stern, and her hull was penetrated by several shots, one of which, it is reported, passed entirely through her. At one time the Yankees were so close that the order to fire and the direction to trail their guns could be dist