Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-07-21

sto1 no wholn flcet or ALr,,r.I c,,d,
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m onc or his litiIc vnsscI,, nj ,c.,n
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mi M Norfolk
Ar wilmiurton two ironcl,a, worn
huil, md lynch In m, pnlnt,, -,
tucked the Federal fleet of New In.
let. Cape Fear River, driving them
off. ON returning. his shin failed to
steer and he struck on tho inner bar
and she broke In two. Two ConfcI-
crate Generals. Pickett. ondcayored To
rotakc Eastern North Carolina, and
attacked Ncwbern. assisted bv Cant.
IJohn TAYLOR Woods with ten boats
and 100 men and officers.
Launching our boats in tho Ncmsc
Mt Kinston. We pulled down and.
finding the United states eunbont I'm.
derwriter. CARRYING four guns aud $40
men. attacked her mt 2.3O A. NJ. Fob
rnary .. 1864, aud after hard fight
captured her. IL was the intention
Of Capt. Woods to 70 down to More
head CITY and engage other United
States vessels, but the United states
battery nj Newl-rn opened fire and
destroyed her machinery, when she
was set fire and abandoned. Our
loss was two officers killed. Engineer
Gill and M'dshipman Saunders. both
of Virginia. three scamcn killed aud
rive wounded. What the Federal loss
was is unknown. Her captain was
Killed. and we brought OFF thirty sew
en- wounded anu unhnft
In April Gen. Uokc made m nj
tempt on Plymouth n. G. assisted nv
the ironclad Alhcmarle. Cant Cooke
ana ten ships boats. under Lieut.
Robert Minor. OF the navy. Several
OF the cnemy's ships were damaged.
and one sunk and .he town snrren.
dered. In second fight with tho
whole sound fleet. the Albemnrlo was
rammed by several vessels her
smokcstack shot away. ana with hard
Is steam enough 10 move she regain.
cd tho Roanoke River and was after
wards sunk with a torpcdo bv Fod
eral lieutenant ana boats CROW and
Plymouth was retaken.
In South Carolina Waters.
The oncratIons In South Corol,no
were first nj port ROYAL whor" ratt,
mil met Admiral Dupont uth come
Twenty-Five shlps. carryiny over ban
puns Tottnnll hnvmo throa email
steamers with sjv pune sncncoJnJ In
holding thcm M hov mti, most n, thn
ConreJeratee Ind ev,cuntnJ lilo fnrta
In Charleston harbor can, Inprohom
with the Chicora and Palmetto state.
lronclads. carrying four guns each
drove Off the blockadlng fleet and
drove them to sea. one ship snrren.
dered and afterwards escaped. The
navy at Charleston did excellent work
In patrolling the harbor ana Watching
the great fleet of Dupont. and the
Chicora. uder Marley. of South Caro-
lima. assisted the defenders ly the
United States navy. under Williams
in small boats, nearly the whole OF
the expedition We're either killed or
captured with their boats.
There were built Mt Charleston four
ironclads. Tho Columbia, the finest,
was wrecked on trial trip. and the
Charleston, six guns, with the others
mentioned, upon the evacuation of
Charleston joined Ilardee's command
At Pee-Dee was avy yard. which
supplied Wilmington and Charleston
with material to build ships, and
there was built the cruiser Pce.Dce.
carrying two heavy guns. double pro
pcller and schooner rugged, but she
was too late and, with the yard burn'
ed, her officers and men joined John
sons army.
In Georgia.
In Georgia little was accomplished
by the navy. Tattnalls small steam.
or was reinforced in time by the iron
clad Atlanta, built upon the hull OF
the Flngala vessel that ran the block
ade into Savannah. She engaged two
monitors in one OF the sounds below
Savannah. and after hard fight the
Atlanta ran hard and fast aground
and Webb, her commander, was com
PEELED to surrender. On June 3, 1864.
Thomas j. Pelot. OF South Carolina.
with -four small l,oats and sixty men.