Text Appearing Before Image: CAPE FEAR RIVER AND APPROACHES TO WILMINGTON, N. C. formidable work near the mouth of the Cape Fear. A larger fleet than had yet been Butler was embarked, and the expedition force of eight thousand troops under General Text Appearing After Image: 768 BOAT OF THE DEERHOUND RESCUING CAPTAIN SEMMES ADMINISTRATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 769 sailed to the Cape Fear. Fort Fisher wassubjected to a vigorous bombardment, whichwas begun on the twenty-fourth of Decem-ber, and the troops were landed; but at thelast moment General Butler decided that thefort was too strong to he assaulted, and theexpedition returned to Hampton Roads. Mobile in August of that year. In January,1863, she ran the blockade, and in threemonths captured and destroyed fifteen mer-chant vessels. She was at length seized inthe harbor of Bahia, in Brazil, by a Federalman-of-war, and taken to Hampton Roads.The Brazilian Government, resenting this
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