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The Daily Dispatch: April 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Capture of Plymouth, N. C.--Twenty-five hundred prisoners and thirty pieces of artillery taken. (search)
Edenton is no longer a safe place for Yankees. Albemarle Sound communicates with the Pamlico Sound, which became so well known to newspaper readers in studying Burnside's expedition and his capture of the towns and Islands of the sound. Roanoke Island is the point of division between the two sounds. We cannot anticipate the course of the gunboat thus new let loose, nor of the Confederate movement of which we suppose this Plymouth triumph is only a part. We may well imagine that a staunch gunboat of light draft and guns of large calibre, once past Roanoke Island, could initiate a grand ball on the amber hued waters of the Pamlico.--The transports employed there by the Yankees to serve the wants and purposes of their garrisons at Newbern and elsewhere, would be as much terrified by her appearance among them as would be a school of fat, delicate panfish on discovering a shark in their midst busily engaged in gulping them down. Newbern, on the Neuse river, near the point of it