'clock P. M. It was composed of the following steamers: Delaware, Lieut. Com. Quackenbush, the flag-ship; Underwriter, Lieut. Corn. W. N. Jeffers; Louisiana, Lieut. Com. Murray; Lockwood, Acting Master Graves; Seymour, Lieut. Corn.
Wells; Hetzell, Lieut. Corn.
Wells; Hetzell, Lieut. Com. Davenport; Shawsheen, Acting Master Woodruff; Valley City, Lieut. Corn.
Chaplin; General Putnam, Acting Master Hotchkiss; Commodore Perry, Lieut. Corn.
Flusser; Ceres, Acting Master MacDiarmid; Morse, Acting Master Hayes; Whitehead, AcLieut. Corn.
Chaplin; General Putnam, Acting Master Hotchkiss; Commodore Perry, Lieut. Corn.
Flusser; Ceres, Acting Master MacDiarmid; Morse, Acting Master Hayes; Whitehead, Acting Master French; Brincker, Acting Master Giddings, making fourteen in all.
The distance to Elizabeth City from Roanoke Island, is some thirty-five or forty miles.
We came in sight of Elizabeth City about three o'clock, and, as we approachedLieut. Corn.
Flusser; Ceres, Acting Master MacDiarmid; Morse, Acting Master Hayes; Whitehead, Acting Master French; Brincker, Acting Master Giddings, making fourteen in all.
The distance to Elizabeth City from Roanoke Island, is some thirty-five or forty miles.
We came in sight of Elizabeth City about three o'clock, and, as we approached, we discovered the enemy's steamers--seven in number — in line of battle, in front of the city, ready to receive us. A fort was also discovered on a point which projected out some considerable distance--one fourth of a mile, perhaps — in front of t
40.-the capture of Edenton.
Lieut.-Commander Maury's report.
United States Steamship Louisiana, off Elizabeth City, N. C., February 12.
sir: In obedience to your orders, I proceeded with this vessel, accompanied by the Underwriter, Lieut. Corn.
Jeffers; the Commodore Perry, Lieut. Corn.
Husser; and the Lockwood, Acting Master Graves Commanding, to the city of Edenton, west end of Albemarle Sound.
At half-past 8 o'clock this morning, we arrived off the entrance to the harbor, anLieut. Corn.
Husser; and the Lockwood, Acting Master Graves Commanding, to the city of Edenton, west end of Albemarle Sound.
At half-past 8 o'clock this morning, we arrived off the entrance to the harbor, and, after careful reconnoissance, we passed in — the Lockwood in the advance, to keep the large vessels informed from time to time of the depth of water in the channel, or of the appearance of earthworks on the banks.
At ten A. M. we had undisturbed possession of the town; part of a flying artillery regiment, variously estimated at from one hundred to three hundred, fled precipitately, without firing a shot.
Many of the inhabitants also left, in consequence.
I was told, of a vile rumor havi