Averill has escaped, losing a few hundred men, and his
wagons, etc. The Chesapeake, that sailed out of New York, and was subsequently
taken by the passengers (Confederates), was hotly followed to Canada, where it
was surrendered to the British authorities by the United States officers, after
being abandoned.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
120
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