JANUARY 20-21ST, 1862: The CSS Sea Bird, Flag Officer Lynch, with the CSS Raleigh in company, reconnoitered Hatteras Inlet and "there saw a large fleet of steamers and transports."
Lynch pointed out in a letter to Confederate Secretary of Navy Mallory the importance of the area around which Roanoke Island controlled: "Here is the great thoroughfare from Albemarle Sound and its tributaries, and if the enemy obtain lodgments or succeed in passing here he will cut off a very rich country from Norfolk market."
--Old B-Runner
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