NOVEMBER 4TH
Rear Admiral S.P. Lee reported to Sec. Fox "There is no doubt that a large trade was carried on with Wilmington (NC) through Shalotte Inlet 25 miles below, & New Topsail Inlet 15 miles above Wilmington. I have shut both doors."
The USS Daylight and Mount Vernon forced blockade-running British bark Sophia aground and destroyed her near Masonboro Ilet, NC.
NOVEMBER 5TH
The USS Louisiana captured the schooner Alice B. Webb at Rose Bay, NC.
NOVEMBER 8TH
CSS Alabama captured and burned the ship T.B. Wales southeast of Bermuda.
NOVEMBER 9TH
Greenville, NC, surrendered to a joint Army-Navy landing force under Second Assistant Engineer J.L.Lay of the USS Louisiana.
The Louisiana eventually became Butler's powder ship for his experiment before the First Battle of Fort Fisher.
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