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The Daily Dispatch: January 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
apture of the Schooner Sherwood--Tantalizing the Yarkebs. The following paragraph we take from the Herald's Fortress Monroe correspondence, of the 30th ult.: In my letter of yesterday, in giving the account of the capture of the water schooner Sherwood, from the Newport News boat Express, I was not aware that any one had remained on board, in as much as the report reached us that the crew had manned the lifeboat and put back to Newport News. Since then, however, I found out that John Kirwin, the master of the schooner, remained on his vessel, and subsequently taken prisoner. The rebels greatly bossted of their feat, and some of the boat's crew, coming to meet our flag of truce to-day, asked our men "whether our men wanted any water?" The ferry-boat Morse, commander Hayes, from Brooklyn, having a nine-inch gun on board was about the first vessel that took position in bombarding the Sewell's Point battery, and among the last to leave the scene of action. Escape of "Cont