Capture of the Propeller ‘Fanny’ In Pamlico Sound by Three Confederate Steamers while Conveying Men and Stores to the Twentieth Indiana Regiment
(from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated History of the Civil War…, edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895)
“0n the 1st of October, 1861, Colonel Hawkins dispatched the propeller Fanny, with two cannon, ammunition, supplies and provisions, to the camp of the Twentieth Indiana Regiment, then stationed at Chicamacomico. While they were landing their stores into boats they were attacked, about five o’clock in the afternoon, by the Confederate steamer, Northampton, and two tugs, which came from the direction of Roanoke Island, and after a brief engagement the Fanny was surrendered to the enemy.”