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The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Sherman's movements. A letter from General Sherman's brother, at Savannah, says that, on the 26th ultimo, a portion of the army commenced moving. Completion of Butler's canal — the bulkhead blown out--fifteen feet of water in the canal. A letter to the Philadelphia Inquirer, from Butler's headquarters on the 1st, announces the completion of the canal and the blasting out of its upper end on that day. It says: The long-expected blasting of the upper end of the famous Dutch Gap canal occurred at 4 o'clock this afternoon. To effect its removal, it was to be blasted with gunpowder. As a preliminary to this, it was desirable to diminish, as far as possible, the mass of earth to be blown out, and a large diagonal slice, sloping inward, was taken off the top of the bulkhead. It was also detached from the solid ground on either side of it by cutting narrow fissures down to the level of the water. The mine was sunk to the depth of twenty feet below the bottom of t
The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The War news. The most interesting news of the day is brought us by the Northern papers, and is the announcement that Butler's much-talked-of Dutch Gap canal has at length been completed. The importance of this news remains to be seen. If it is a success; that is, if it admits the passage through it of the Yankee fleet, it is an important and useful work to the enemy, inasmuch as it puts them about six miles nearer the city by water than they would be had they been obliged to make the trip around Farrar's island, which is the name of the peninsula of which Dutch gap was the isthmus. If it proves unnavigable to monitors and gunboats, the whole vast undertaking is so much time and labor lost. But even should it float the monitors comfortably, it is yet to be tested whether our batteries on the south side of James river and west of the gap will not effectually blockade its navigation. We think they will. The Yankees tell us the canal has fifteen feet of water in it at high