Email Record: Chowan River, N. C., and Blackwater Creek, Va. Letter from the Secretary of War. Transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, dated October 19, 1938, submitting a report, together with accompanying papers and illustration, on a reexamination of Chowan River, N. C., and Blackwater Creek (river), Va., requested by resolutions of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, House of Representatives, adopted January 14, 1936.