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May 18, 1863 – The Captured Steamer Cherokee

NEW YORK, May 16.
The blockade runner Cherokee was captured off Charleston by the Canandaigua, who followed her, and after a sharp chase, boarded and took possession of her. She is an Anglo-rebel propeller, built in the Clyde, is very swift, and had a cargo of 450 bales of cotton and a large quantity of tobacco, worth in all $175,000.