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The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
vessels, but there are no torpedoes sunk in it. The rebels possess, however, a peculiar invention in the shape of an 'infernal' arrangement, worked by clock work, which is set off against a vessel at a distance of a mile. Fort Gaines, on Dauphin Island mounts twenty-two guns; Fort Morgan, on the main land, one hundred and twenty guns; Fort Grant, at Grant's Pass, on the northwest side of Dauphin Island, three guns; while at the mouth of Spanish river a heavy iron-clad battery, mounting 10 iDauphin Island, three guns; while at the mouth of Spanish river a heavy iron-clad battery, mounting 10 inch and 11 inch guns, and at Dog river a formidable sand battery commands the channel. On the east side of the Spanish river the ship Danube, mounting six guns and heavily iron clad, is anchored. She is officered from the army. These is no scarcity of iron for mailing vessels, as the rebels are converting railroad iron, taken from the abandoned railroads, into iron for the vessels. The stock of cotton in Mobile is quite large but there is but very little trade. Prices of provisions ra