Albemarle

the first permanent settlement in what is now North Carolina, was founded on the banks of the Chowan and the Roanoke by Roger Greene, in 1653, at the head of a small body of Di enters from Virginia. “ Albemarle,” a Confederate ironclad ram, which, in April and May, 1864, destroyed or disabled several of the Federal gunboats at the mouth of the Roanoke River, and captured Plymouth, N. C., with 1,600 Federal prisoners. On the night of October 27, Lieutenant Cushing, U.S. N., a youth of twenty-one, in command of a torpedo launch, getting within twenty yards of the ‘‘ Albemarle’ before he was discovered, blew her up with a torpedo and made a miraculous escape.