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The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], One hundred and twenty-five Dollars reward. (search)
t stronghold is completed, without the aid of ships. Opposite to this, about five hundred yards distant, is Jones's Island, on which another battery of five guns is planted for a similar purpose.--The next Island to York, and nearest Savannah, is Elba, a stretch of marsh two and a half or three miles in length and half a mile or more in breadth. The lower end of this is only a rifle shot from York Island, and has been alternately visited by Federals and Confederates, but only for purposes of rnderstand that yesterday a detachment of our men applied the torch among the tall reeds at this end, and in an hour, with a brisk wind blowing, the entire marsh was swept clear of all obstructions to the vision. The distance from the upper end of Elba to Fort Jackson, which is two and a half miles below the city, on the right bank, is about two miles--may be, a little less, but within easy shelling distance with mortars. I understand that the Federals have secured three or four flats between t