James B. Hopkins, CSN and the Capture of the Mailboat Fawn-- Part 2

Seven men from the Fawn were killed or wounded by federal accounts.

Commander James Macomb sent three gunboats carrying extra Marines in pursuit but were too late to capture Hopkins' group.

The gunboats proceed to Elizabeth City, N.C.,  where Lieutenant Commander  English arrested seven citizens whom he sent to Norfolk as hostages.

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Later in the fall, Confederate raiders blew up the lighthouse at the entrance to Croatan Sound.

Thus was the small-scale war in the Carolina Sounds in 1864 and 1865.

--Old B-Runner