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Capture of three Lake steamers.

--The New Orleans Picayune is indebted to the courtesy of Gen. Lovell for the use of the following dispatch:

‘ Fort Pike, Nov. 29.--Captain Buckley, of the steamer Jeff. Davis, has just left my wharf, having been turned back on his trip to Mobile. He reports the capture, by the Yankees, yesterday morning, in the Sound, of the steamers Grey Cloud, Watson, and Henry Lewis--the two latter heavily laden with freight for Mobile.

’ H. A. Clinch, Major Comd'g.

Maj. Gen. Lovell, C. S. A.

The Picayune further says:

‘ Since receiving the above, we learn from here agents here, John E. Hyde & Co., that the Grey Cloud arrived in port (Mobile) early yesterday morning. The wrong name has probably been given, by mistake, to one of the captured boats.

Another dispatch has been received by Mr. Geddes, agent of the mail line, dated Pascagoula, yesterday, stating that a steamer name not mentioned, was captured by the enemy, in the morning, and in the evening a schooner.

’

The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. December 10, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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