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The Daily Dispatch: June 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway in Jail (search)
A British war vessel off Cape Henry. --The arrival of the steamer Georgiana at Baltimore on the 18th inst., brings the intelligence of the appearance of an English man-of-war off Cape Henry. A British war vessel off Cape Henry. --The arrival of the steamer Georgiana at Baltimore on the 18th inst., brings the intelligence of the appearance of an English man-of-war off Cape Henry.
The Daily Dispatch: June 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], $10 reward (search)
he three months soldiers, whose term had expired, and who would not enlist for the three years additional. There was a small arrival of troops on Monday from New York, beyond which there was nothing of interest going on. The report that the new rifle cannon on the Rip-Raps had fired on Sewell's Point, is contradicted. The battery is said by those who came up on the steamer to be entirely out of sight of Fortress Monroe and the Rip-Raps. A trial of the gun was made towards Cape Henry, and proved to have a very long range. Several families left on a steamer on Monday for New York. An attack on Newport News Point is expected, and preparations to repel it are now being made. Everything is quiet in the vicinity, though there are constant complaints of depredations by the Federal soldiers on the property of citizens in Hampton and its vicinity. Yesterday Mr. James Weaver, of this city, left Old Point for Great Bethel, in search of the body of Major Winthrop.
The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], The circulation of the Dispatch. (search)
k, was shot through the face and hand, and August Peterson was mortally wounded. Both are now at the Hyspia Hospital here. Six others were slightly wounded. Capt. Braine at once opened fire upon the Confederates with shell and canister, killing and wounding, he thinks, a large number of them. The companies fled, and the house was completely demolished. The Quaker City also had a short engagement this morning with a large number of dragoons while cruising in Lynn Haven bay near Cape Henry. Commander Carr picket up a man named Lynch, a refugee from Norfolk, who represented that the master plummer of the Navy-Yard was ashore, and wished to be taken off. An armed boat sent for the purpose was fired upon when near the shore mortally wounding James Lloyd, seaman, of Charlestown, Mass. A few 32-pound shells dispersed the attacking party behind the sand-hills. Lloyd died this afternoon. Adolph Vincinnes, of Col. Duryea's regiment, died yesterday of a wound received at Great
The Daily Dispatch: July 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 21 (search)
harged his revolver, but nobody could be seen. A guard was dispatched to find the cause of the wandering missile, but to no use, and it yet remains a mystery as to who shot the ball. His wound is properly dressed, and we hope for his early recovery. I am happy to hear that Capt. McCarrick, so nobly engaged in the service of the South in the capture of the two vessels heretofore spoken of, also took eighteen prisoners. A large ship, with about 750 bags of coffee, went ashore off Cape Henry Monday night. She has been secured by our men, who are glad to realize such a prize with this cargo. Col. Huger makes a strong appeal to our people for the observance of the 4th of July. From the preparations we hear taking place, the day will pass off most patriotically. Flag presentations will take place to-day and to-morrow, and an interesting time is in store. Mayor Lamb will be the presenter of the one to be presented to-day, which he will do in behalf of the ladies of Norf
The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], $10 reward (search)
t through his head. Lieutenant Johnson and Mr. Shurtliff were also supposed to have been killed, and the remainder made their escape. Everything was quiet about the Fortress and vicinity, but from information received it was apprehended that an attack would be speedily made at Newport News Point. The Quaker City ran up to Fortress Monroe on Friday, having on board Captain Baker, a wrecker, who had resided for several years in Norfolk. He was picked up in a small beat outside of Cape Henry, while attempting to escape to the North. On reaching Fortress Monroe, Capt. Baker was summoned before Gen. Butler, who questioned him as to the condition of the defences and troops at and about Norfolk and Ports, mouth. He stated that the defences are of the most formidable character, and the troops are in excellent spirits. He expressed the opinion that Norfolk is prepared to resist any attack that may be made upon it, and the number of troops between that city and Richmond is imm
The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Cruising in search of privateers. (search)
Cruising in search of privateers. --The steam gunboat Iroquois returned to this port this morning, from a cruise for privateers. The revenue cutter Jackson, Capt., Hyde, has also returned to port, from a cruise in the Gulf, in search of privateers. She has not seen any of the pirates. On the 16th instant, forty miles south of Cape Henry, she discovered a wreck on shore, and saw one hundred or one hundred and fifty men around it; sent in a flag of truce, but they would not communicate. The men were armed with muskets, and the only reply they made was "Come ashore." After the return of the flag of truce, the Jackson threw several shot and shell among the mention shore, which dispersed the, but no force could be landed, on account of the high surf. On the 19th instant, between Capes Henry and Hatteras, the Jackson spoke the United States sloop Savannah.--N. Y. Post.
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gen. McClellan and the Press. (search)
ieut. Crosby, who conducted the successful expedition to Accomac and Northampton, on the Eastern Shore, will leave Old Point in the morning with an effective force for a similar purpose. The sailing frigate Savannah is being towed up the Roads, and will proceed to Newport News to relieve the Dale, now ordered to sea. The crew of the bark Linwood, of New York, thirteen in number, have just arrived on the Quaker City. The bark was wrecked on Cape Hatteras. They were picked up off Cape Henry. The Quaker City picked up this morning, near the Capes, a small boat containing ten shipmasters and seamen, who had escaped from Fort Oregon, North Carolina. They give some startling intelligence of the doings on the North Carolina coast. At Hatteras Inlet there are three steamers and a pilot boat privateering. One of them, the "Gordon," ran the blockade at Charleston and of the Whole coast up to Hatteras Inlet ten days ago, since which time she has captured brig Wm. H. McGilv
The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
From Norfolk.[correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Norfolk, Va. Aug. 21, 1861. A Spanish frigate went ashore off Cape Henry beach on Monday evening. The Princes Anne Cavalry, on the beach, in attempting to render assistance, was fired at by the Quaker City. Five shots were fired and one bomb, the bomb bursting just over the head of Captain Fentress, of the cavalry, and came near killing several privates. Fortunately, however, no one was hurt. The Quaker City then steered in the direction of Old Point, where, it is thought, she went to get assistance to tow off the frigate. The frigate succeeded in getting off some time during the night, and sailed up off the Fortress, where she was saluted by 21 guns by the shipping in the harbor. Why this attack upon the cavalry by the Quaker City, we are at a less to determine, except it be jealousy to give aid first to a foreign vessel. She was at first supposed to be a French frigate, and was so reported by Capt. Fentress in
The Daily Dispatch: August 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of Major Weightman. (search)
August 19. --Notwithstanding the regiments taken away from Old Point, there is still an effective force here sufficient for all probable emergencies. The great portion of the men sent to the Rip Raps are to be quartered inside the Fortress. An excellent state of feeling now prevails, and our troops are anxious for an advance. The steamer Minnesota will sail southward shortly. The steamer Quaker City is up from the Capes, and reports a ninety-gun deck ship of war ashore at Cape Henry. She went aground at ebb tide, and will doubtless he got off at flood tide. Two powerful propellers are going to her relief. [This is the Spanish ship noticed in our Norfolk correspondence.] The steamer Baltimore--Affairs on the river. The steamer Baltimore (says the Washington Star of Tuesday evening,) came up from Old Point last night, where she had been detained by bad weather, bringing in low eleven fine ship's launches; four of which were at once fitted out, each with a
The Daily Dispatch: August 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Attorney General Bates to the bogus Convention. (search)
ssel had been there for some time. A Dutch war steamer, however, came in the Roads Tuesday, and after exchanging salutes and learning the difficulties between the North and the South she left quickly and without further ceremony. I cannot ascertain her name, whence she came from, or her destination. A flag of truce want down to Fort Monroe yesterday, and dispatches were exchanged between officers of the two hostile Governments. A large merchant ship is reported ashore inside of Cape Henry, name, &c., not ascertained. The report may not be correct. Yesterday, two young gentlemen--one from this city and the other belonging to a company stationed below the city — went out in a small boat some distance from the shore of Lynn haven Bay. It soon became calm, and they were observed by the officers of the Federal steamer Quaker City. A boat was immediately lowered and manned, and started in the direction of the boat from the shore. By good skilling and hard rowing, however,
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