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The Daily Dispatch: July 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Federal deserter from St. Rosa Island . (search)
A Federal deserter from St. Rosa Island.
Our city, especially the part in the vicinity of our office, was thrown into no little excitement on yesterday evening by the arrival of a Federal deserter in charge of a detachment of Capt. Clanton's Montgomery Mounted Rifles.
He has a fine open face and talks pretty freely, and is not at all backward in giving a full account of the enemy and their fortifications.
He sailed as a sailor on board the Niagara from Boston, where he had just arrived she was here last, and has been standing guard on the island up to the time of his escape.--He affected his escape on Saturday night last by walking fourteen miles up the island and then swimming two miles across the sound to the vicinity of Capt. Clanton's camp, where he gave himself up to their hands.
He reports but three sand batteries on the island with heavy guns and rifled cannon, and a deep entrenchment on the gulf side.
He says there are twelve hundred men on the island attorned with