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| Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 8 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| The Daily Dispatch: October 16, 1863., [Electronic resource] | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 5 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.8 (search)
New Light on the great Drewry's Bluff fight.
From the News leader, September 8, 1906.
Judge William Izard Clopton's description of the naval Engagement—a valuable addition to Civil war History—Facts heretofore Unpublished.
The following report of the great naval battle of Drewry's Bluff was prepared and delivered to a large audience at Chesterfield Courthouse, Tuesday afternoon, September 4, 1906, by Judge William I. Clopton.
In speaking of this address, Judge Clopton said:
There is no effort at elocutionary pyrotechnics, nor any flowery eloquence.
It is simply an historical report of what actually happened in an event which was fraught with so much moment to Richmond in the stirring times of the Civil War. The naval engagement here related is the one which prevented the men of war of the enemy from coming up to Richmond and bombarding the city in 1862.
In treating the facts concerning the naval battle which occurred at Drewry's Bluff, May 15, 1862, I am aware that