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The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Negro Hiring for 1862. (search)
ral stronghold, to get ready for a demonstration somewhere. The steamer Wm. Selden, in command of Capt. Southgate, went down towards the Fortress, yesterday, with a flag of truce; and after waiting three hours, at the usual place of communication, returned with her passengers, &c., without meeting as usual with a Federal steamer from the Point. Before the Wm. Selden had reached her wharf, however, a Federal steamer, with a flag of truce, was signalled as on the way from the fort to Craney Island, where passengers, goods, &c., were landed and subsequently brought up to the city. I have not learned the cause of the failure to make the communication with the Selden. Recently a large number of blankets packed in bales were among articles sent from Fort Monroe by flag of truce to Norfolk for Northern prisoners in the South. On reaching this city, it was noticed that the blankets were marked--"Prisoners, Rebel Government, New Orleans. " Gen. Huger promptly and very properly ret
The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Negro Hiring for 1862. (search)
ral stronghold, to get ready for a demonstration somewhere. The steamer Wm. Selden, in command of Capt. Southgate, went down towards the Fortress, yesterday, with a flag of truce; and after waiting three hours, at the usual place of communication, returned with her passengers, &c., without meeting as usual with a Federal steamer from the Point. Before the Wm. Selden had reached her wharf, however, a Federal steamer, with a flag of truce, was signalled as on the way from the fort to Craney Island, where passengers, goods, &c., were landed and subsequently brought up to the city. I have not learned the cause of the failure to make the communication with the Selden. Recently a large number of blankets packed in bales were among articles sent from Fort Monroe by flag of truce to Norfolk for Northern prisoners in the South. On reaching this city, it was noticed that the blankets were marked--"Prisoners, Rebel Government, New Orleans. " Gen. Huger promptly and very properly ret
The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Negro Hiring for 1862. (search)
The Late engagement near Norfolk. A correspondent, writing from Sewell's Paiz, corrects some misstatements in regard to the engagement of December 29th, in which the steamer Sea Bird acted such a brilliant and conspicuous part. There were, he says, only two shots from Craney Island, while from the Sewell's Point batteries there were twenty-one shots in all--twenty of which were fired by the Manchester Artillery. It is not known what effect was produced, for the enemy's steamers were so far down that our firing must necessarily have been very uncertain; but it is supposed they were struck some two or three times. The enemy fired some fifty or sixty shells, without doing any further injury than demolishing a hen house in the neighborhood and killing a quiet and domestic old hen that had gone into winter quarters. "It is almost unnecessary to add (writes our correspondent) that every man on the ground was promptly at his gun, and that we will always be prepared to give them a he