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The Daily Dispatch: May 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Correspondence. (search)
a large quantity of tar. This running down to Cape Fearafter and floating over its surface, threatened to envelops every ship on it in flames. The of these vessels left the river hastily, avoid the imminent danger. Could not the rface of James river be thus covered with contents of thousands of barrels of tar, rude turpentine, and resin in a state of ignition, upon which might be thrown old boxes, barrels, lumber and shanties, pine faggots and such other combustibles as would make James rJames river too hot to hold the Yankee ves either wooden or iron clad? A Subscriber. The position of our country. Camp Mcintosh, North Carolina, May 14, 1862. To the Editors of the Dispatch: The heavy hand of misfortune has recently dealt us some severe blows, and have heard with deep mortification the fall of the Crescent City and the of our gunboats there, of the evacuation. Norfolk and the destruction of property And now we are assured that the Virginia, upon which
The Daily Dispatch: May 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], The War. (search)
The War. There was a general failure of the mails on Friday and Saturday, and we consequently received but few of our Southern exchanges. From the means at hand, we compile the following summary, which will be found interesting: The gunboat fight at Drury's Bluff. The Petersburg Express, of Friday, has some further particular of the fight at Drury's Bluff, which we copy: The fight at Fort Drury yesterday on James river, (Chesterfield side) was quite an exciting affair, and we have good grounds for believing resulted in a decided repulse to the Lincoln gunboats. A gentleman who was present in forms us that the approach of the Federals was first discovered by our pickets about daylight. The fighting was commenced at half-past 7, and continued without intermission until eleven, when the gunboats, entirely satisfied retired rapidly down the river. The Galena, an iron clad, but not so formidable as the Monitor, was the only vessel engaged, although the Monitor and three