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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1862., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Galveston (Texas, United States) or search for Galveston (Texas, United States) in all documents.
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[Special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Norfolk, March 6, 1862
Captain Chubb, of the Confederate privateer Royal Yacht, captured off Galveston in November, arrived here yesterday by flag of truce from Fort Monroe.
The Day Book has an account of the capture of the Royal Yacht, from which I take the following paragraph:
"The Royal Yacht was commissioned on the 9th of September, 1862, and was attacked by the enemy on the 8th of November following.
She was lying at the time at GGalveston, and was acting as a picket or guard boat. --The attack was made at about 2½ o'clock in the morning by two launches of the United States vessel Santee, each containing forty men, and a cutter with twenty men — making a total of one hundred.
The crew of the Yacht, notwithstanding the statement of the enemy to the contrary, numbered only thirteen; and when they say they killed all excepting the thirteen they made prisoners, they only take a roundabout way of saying that they killed none