Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Series 1, Volume 6. Page: 68
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ATLANTIC BLOCKADING SQUADRON.
The Quaker City picked up this morning near the capes a small boat
containing ten shipmasters and seamen who had escaped from Fort
Oregon, N. C.
They give some intelligence of the doings on the North Carolina
coast. At Hatteras Inlet there are three steamers and a pilot boat
privateering.
The names of the privateers are the Gordon, the Coffee, side-wheel
steamer, formerly running between Old Point and Norfolk; steamer
Marion [Mariner], formerly a Wilmington tugboat, and schooner York,
a Norfolk pilot boat. All of them are armed with rifled cannon. Those
from Norfolk were take down the canal to Albemarle Sound. New
Berne, N. C., is the headquarters of these pirates.
The gunboats are being collected and mounted at Norfolk, to be
taken down the canal; crews for them are now being shipped at New
Berne. The bark Glen, of Portland, with Government coal, was cap-
tured a week ago and taken into Beaufort, N. C.
The frigate Wabash arrived from off Charleston for coal and water,
having been relieved by the Roanoke. She recaptured the schooner
Mary Alice, of New York, which had been taken by the pliratical
schooner Dixie. The prize crew are now prisoners on the Wabash.
She took the brig Sarah Starr, bound from Wilmington to Liverpool
with turpentine and rosin and sailing under English colors.
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy to Flag-Oficer Stringham, U. S.
Navy, commanding Atlantic Blockading Squadron, transmitting infor-
mation regarding contraband trade.
NAVY DEPARTMENT, August 8, 1861.
SIR: I herewith enclose an extract of a letter received by the Depart-
ment from Mir. J. S. Farlow, of Boston, respecting trade carried on
with the ports of North Carolina, to which your attention is invited.
I am, respectfully, your obedient servant,
GIDEON WELLES.
Flag-Officer S. 11. STRINGHAM,
Comdg. Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Hampton Roads, Virginia.
[Enclosure.]
BOSTON, August 6, 1861.
D)EAR SIR: From information that has come to my knowledge I feel
well assured that parties in New York, in connection with parties in
the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, are now engaged in
chartering and fitting out British schooners in those provinces, loading
there with fish and other articles contraband of war, and discharging
same at Wilmington and the small ports of North Carolina, taking in
return thence naval stores and tobacco.
This tobacco is supposed to be taken to Wilmington and the other
North Carolina ports by land from Richmond and Petersburg, Va.
These naval stores and tobacco thus procured are moved from the pro-
vincial ports alongshore by schooners and steamers to the near-by
United States ports, when by false swearing or other illicit means it is
admitted free of duty as returned American productions.
Respectfully, yours,
J. 8. FARLOW,
Hon. GIDEON WELLES,
Secretary of the Navy, Washington.68
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United States. War Department. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Series 1, Volume 6., book, 1897; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth192841/m1/91/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.