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The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
emy on the earth. We have a valiant, though a degenerate and demoralized foe to contend with. But arouse, patriots of Virginia, to the rescue; liberty in the hands of a tyrant is death to a freeman. Your homes and firesides are invaded; the sacred altars where your fathers knelt are desecrated by the hand of infamy and dishonor. Victory is to the brave, but defeat is to the coward. The love of one's place is felt by a patriot, and instinctive, he will defend it; but treason to one's State should be death to the offender. Our camps are enlivened by the reports of battles in various quarters, yet little credence is given to rumors. Two deserters from the Georgia troops occurred at Sewell's Point Thursday morning. They were both Northerners and were conveyed over to Fortress Monroe in a boat by a negro, who was forced into service; but was permitted to return to the Georgia camps.--Com. Pendergrast informed Capt. Smith of the intention of the men to go North. Gorman.
The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
Tuesday morning a trial of the large rifle cannon recently placed on the Rip Raps. Eleven shells were thrown towards Sewell's Point, three or four of which exploded on the beach, three passed across the point into the channel, and the remainder felldefense with columbians and Dahigreen guns, which it is supposed will be done as soon as an earnest attack is made on Sewell's Point. The elevation of the large gun on the Rip Raps is very great, and easily distinguished from Willoughby's Point. she was roughly handled. The correspondent of the Baltimore American, after giving an account of the firing upon Sewell's Point from the Rip Raps, which he says occasioned "great consternation" in the "Secession garrison," goes on as follows: the Louisiana Zouave Regiment, 1100 strong. On Tuesday the rifle cannon on the Rip Raps landed fifteen shells on Sewell's Point, within a short distance of the rebel battery. A few minutes before the Adelaide quitted Old Point, the Minnesot
The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
The Big gun probably bursted. --The great gun at the Rip-Raps, which has given some annoyance to our troops at Sewell's Point, but without doing them the slightest harm, is supposed to have bursted on Thursday evening. She had fired two shot in the direction of Sewell's Point, and in firing the third, an explosion entirely different from the rest was caused, without projecting a shell or shot of any kind, and it was the opinion of those who observed it that the gun had bursted.--Norfolk Heig gun probably bursted. --The great gun at the Rip-Raps, which has given some annoyance to our troops at Sewell's Point, but without doing them the slightest harm, is supposed to have bursted on Thursday evening. She had fired two shot in the direction of Sewell's Point, and in firing the third, an explosion entirely different from the rest was caused, without projecting a shell or shot of any kind, and it was the opinion of those who observed it that the gun had bursted.--Norfolk Herald.