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The Daily Dispatch: May 26, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], New breach-loading cannon. (search)
New breach-loading cannon. --A correspondent of the New Orleans Delta thus describes a new engine of war, invented by Dr. W. B. Lindsay, of that city: It will, doubtless, astonish the scientific world of gunnery that a man of pills should invent an engine of war for projecting solid masses of lead into the very bowels of an enemy; but such is the fact. This breach-loading rifled cannon is capable of sending thirty shots per minute; is perfectly simple in construction, easily handled, either on the battle field, on the deck of a man-of-war, or in fortification. Its rapid discharge will readily recommend it for privateering purposes. I understand that the Doctor is having a rifle made on the same plan, which will be ready for public examination in a few days.
The Daily Dispatch: May 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], News of the War. (search)
three horses killed. From Vicksburg. The latest newspaper intelligence from Vicksburg is contained in the Jackson Mississippian, of the 19th inst. The following particulars are gathered from a gentleman who left the beleaguered city on the evening of the 18th: Five of the Yankee gunboats arrived with in range of our batteries at 12 o'clock, M., and one shot from our guns fired across the bow of the foremost vessel brought them to. They sent a message with a flag of truce to Mayor Lindsay, demanding the surrender of the city. The Mayor replied, with significant terseness and pointedness, that if they wanted the city to come and take it. They then communicated with the Confederate authorities, demanding, it is supposed, the surrender of our forts just below Vicksburg, which was of course as promptly and peremptorily refused. After this the gunboats weighed anchor and dropped down the river. It is believed that they went down to report progress, and bring up the bal