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The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
along the line very considerable additions have been made to the scouts of cavalry and infantry. We have highly interesting intelligence from Port Royal by the arrival of the Government transport steamer City of New York, which left on the 6th inst. General Sherman had at last decided to occupy Beaufort, and General Stevens's brigade, consisting of about twenty five hundred men, was to go up for that purpose the day the steamer sailed. Another diversion of troops was to be made to Tybee Island, which would be occupied permanently by a force of five hundred men, which would doubtless be sufficient, with proper fortifications, aided by the gun-boats of the flotilla, which have been detached to operate in those waters. These movements had rendered necessary the postponement of the expedition under Gen. Vicle until the arrival of reinforcements. Measure had also been taken by General Sherman to secure all the cotton in the neighborhood; with the aid of the negroes, and Co