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The Daily Dispatch: November 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk (search)
y. With regard to Norfolk, it seems the intention of the Federal authorities have postponed the attack here until the weather becomes colder. Possibly, like Dunmore, of revolutionary fame, they may wait until the first day of next year, for the purpose of having a grand jollification here on new year's day. Of course the Yanhere, after his ravings about the victory of the rebels at the Great Bridge, and swearing that he would hang the boy that brought to town the news of the defeat. Dunmore, by the way, having determined to drive out the inhabitants with his big guns, directed the women and children to leave, and on the 1st January, 1776, commenced a heavy cannonade upon the town, which being returned as vigorously as possible, and the town being set on fire and burned by the Virginians, Dunmore and his fleet, finding that they could not get quarters and provisions here, were compelled to go elsewhere.--Lincoln, Scott, &c., would no doubt regard this place and the Navy-Yard as