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The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], The battle of Buena Vista. (search)
tion of these batteries has hitherto gone on undisturbed by the fleet, till Friday and Saturday the attempt was persisted in of throwing up a battery on Sewell's Point. -- This position commands the vessels blockading James river, and if mounted with heavy and effective guns would render that portion of the roadstead untenable. About noon, therefore, a strong party being observed perfecting the earth works, facing them with timber, finishing the embrasures, &c., the steamer Star (late Monticello) opened upon the works with two ten-inch guns and shell. She had fired a number of times, when the Roads greeted a new arrival, in the shape of the first detachment of Capt. Ward's steam flotilla, four vessels, thirty-six hours from New York. Capt. Ward's own vessel, the Freeborn, is armed with ten-inch guns, forward and all, and twelve-pounder boat howitzers on the upper deck. Being sent to the scene of the firing, Captain Ward was hailed from the Star, and requested to lay his vessel
The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], War matters. (search)
of the six-pounder on the bridge yesterday was the signal for an immediate and precipitate evacuation of the village of Hampton by all the women and children, and two old guns, all that could be raised in the neighborhood, were planted by the Secessionists on a bridge leading into their village, about a mile from our advanced picket. There are three companies of infantry and one of dragoons, it is said, at Hampton.--There may be a larger force, but it is not likely. The Harriet Lane and Monticello will prevent the transportation of any guns or munitions of war from Norfolk to Hampton to assist in an attack on the fort. It is hardly known how many men there are encamped about us, but we can see from the parapets the white tents of a Georgia regiment gleaming in the green woods on the Virginia shore, across Hampton Roads. The young Cumberland, under command of Boatswain Bell--now Captain Bell--of the Cumberland, frequently runs near in shore and looks over the camp, but has not been