Posted on 04/23/2024 6:31:06 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Friday, April 22.
The following information was received here to-day concerning the recent disaster at Plymouth, N.C.:
A rebel ram came down the river about three o'clock on Monday morning. She floated down with the current and was not discovered until close under the bows of the Miami. Lieut. Commander FLUSSER rushed forward, sighted and fired the bow gun, loaded with shell, which struck the ram, rebounded and instantly killed him, a piece of the shell penetrating his breast.
The ram then attacked the Southfield, and she sunk in five minutes. The Miami was somewhat injured.
The ram passed the guns at Plymouth without being discovered. She is 150 feet long, draws about eight feet of water, and carries only two small guns.
BALTIMORE, Friday, April 22.
The American has special advices from Norfolk, that the steamer Eliza Hancock arrived there yesterday from New-Orleans via Morehead City, where she was taken possession of to bring important dispatches to Gen. BUTLER.
The Captain reported that a rebel ram came down to within a few miles of Plymouth, N.C., and on the 18th instant attacked our fleet, and sunk the gunboat Bombshell and two other gunboats, names unknown.
The greatest anxiety existed at Plymouth, and it was generally expected that it would have to be evacuated.
It was thought that Gen. PECK would be fully able to hold Newbern.
[A naval officer who has spent fourteen months at Plymouth, most of the time watching the rebel ram, and is therefore familiar with the town and its defences, expresses the opinion that there is no truth in the reported attack of the rebel ram upon our fleet and the destruction of the Union gunboats.
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