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The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Particulars of the loss of the ram Albemarle. The Goldsboro' (North Carolina) Journal contains the particulars of the sinking of the iron ram Albemarle at Plymouth, North Carolina, on Friday last. It says: About 2 o'clock in the morning a daring attempt was made by a party of eleven officers of the Yankee navy to blow up, with torpedoes, the iron-clad ram Albemarle, at Plymouth, and the attempt was successful. The Albemarle was moored near the wharf, a gangway connecting her with the shore.--Some distance down the river, in the stream, lay the hall of the Southfield, sunk there by Captain Cooke when Plymouth was captured from the Yankees.--The Southfield was used as a picket station by our infantry forces, to which they passed to and from the shore by a boat, and this bot was usually kept at the Southfield. Thursday night was very dark and stormy. In the darkness and storm, at the hour stated, the Yankee expedition surprised, it is said, the Southfield picket stat