Posted on 01/12/2024 5:13:51 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
FORTRESS MONROE, Sunday, Jan, 10.
The following vessels passed the guard-ship Young Rover last evening for a harbor:
Steamer City of Richmond, KELLY, New-York, for Port Royal; steamer Plata, DENNIS, New-York, for New-Orleans; steamer Eliza, THOMAS, New-York, for Nassau.
The Eliza lost one man overboard, had one man sick, and put in in distress.
Dates from the Wilmington blockading squadron of Jan. 9 state that on the 3d inst. Admiral LEE, of the United States gunboat, Fah-kee entered Lockwood's Folly Inlet, about ten miles to the south of Wilmington, hoisted out his boats and examined the blockade-runner Bendigo, a vessel run ashore by her Captain, about a week before, to prevent her being captured by our blockaders. While making these examinations, the enemy's sharpshooters appeared and opened fire upon the boats' crews, which was returned by the Fah-kee's guns, when a rebel battery opened fire, and our boats returned to the ship. The Fah-kee continued her fire until the Bendigo was well riddled.
The Fah-Kee's battery was light, and in consequence of her draft of water, and the shoals inside, her fire was at long range. Night coming on, the Admiral returned to his fleet, and the following morning dispatched three vessels to the inlet, and made the work of destruction complete.
The weather off Wilmington, for two weeks past, has been extremely stormy. Dense fogs have prevailed, and the knowledge that blockaders would take advantage of them, has increased the labors of our cruisers.
The following vessels, nineteen in all, have been destroyed or captured off Wilmington since the 19th of July last:
Kate, chased ashore and recovered.
Hebe, chased ashore and destroyed.
Denis, chased ashore and destroyed.
Venus, chased ashore and destroyed.
Phantom, chased ashore and destroyed.
Arabia, went to pieces
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