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The Daily Dispatch: April 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], [correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] (search)
el prisoners captured yesterday. They say the boys disclosed all that had taken place recently in their division of the army. From the same correspondent we have a scintilla of news from the Peninsula, vize. We have a rumor here that Yorktown has been abandoned, and the main portion of Magruder's army has fallen back on Richmond. Whether this is reliable cannot at present be known. The latest previce advices were to the effect that Magruder was there with 15,000 men. The "Iron Clads." A Fortress Monroe correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes that the "Merrimac" continues to be the subject of talk and of curiosity. Glasses are constantly directed toward Craney Island, and every indication of smoke or steam there is closely investigated by hundreds of eager eyes. Another correspondent writes. The latest news received here from Norfolk by the underground railroad, leaves no room for a doubt that the Merrimac is thoroughly repaired and in commission, r