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The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Norfolk, August 31st, 1861. (search)
me of the officers taken prisoners by the Yankees are well-known citizens of Norfolk. It is greatly regretted that the point taken by the Federal troops had not been better prepared with men, guns and ammunition. Now, it has become necessary to get rid of the vandals as quickly as possible. Gentlemen, who arrived here last night from Newbern, North Carolina, confirm the unpleasant intelligence which has been received by telegraph relative to the result of the battle. Two men, Charles Spence and Wm. Leary, nailing from Norfolk, and who arrived at N. York in the Federal ship Brooklyn, made their escape and started on foot from the last named city on the 5th of the present month. After walking about 400 miles through forest and field, fording rivers, and suffering great hardships — hunger, thirst, fatigue, and the scorching heat of the sun — they succeeded in reaching here this morning, stopping at Baltimore, going thence to the Eastern shore of Virginia, thence to Cobb's Isl