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The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
From Norfolk. [our own Correspondent.] the great Burnside armada — its backbone broken — the excitement of the North--Confederate reconnaissance — Northern Finances — letters from Correspondthat reinforcements become necessary before putting the plan of the expedition into execution. Burnside has burnt his fingers in this little project; but he is still valiant and calls as loudly for mortion of the Northern news, and I need not recapitulate. The most striking points are that Gen. Burnside expected to find plenty and willing pilots to conduct him through the inlet, and found none;t reported lost, and that many of the gun-boats refused to move from Fortress Monroe--whereupon Burnside attempts to shift the responsibility of the disaster upon contractors. Those items will furnisSee how differently the world looks at disaster! We now have information from both sides. Burnside arrived at Hatteras on the 15th; some of his vessels ran ashore and were lost; others were mis
The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 25 (search)
er house. Paying for the whistle. The Paymaster General of the Northern army estimates the annual cost of the hands of volunteer regiments at over $5,000,000, exclusive of the cost of clothing, subsistence, and transportation. The Burnside expedition. The Herald. congratulates itself and the North that the disasters attending the Burnside, fleet are no worse than they are, and says: The expedition now being fitted out under Commodore Porter promises to carry out fully the of the Sound beyond. If there is a channel nobody appears to know where it is, and the fleet might as well be high and dry on the beach around Forts Clark and Hatteras as in its present place, so far as a likelihood exists of getting away. General Burnside chartered five steam-tugs at Annapolis to come down here and render assistance in moving vessels of the fleet; but not a single one of them has made its appearance as yet, and the only available boats for the purpose are a few ferry-boats, s
The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
sed road, through a dense wood, the greater part of his way, until near the Sudley Road. A division under Colonel Hunter, of the Federal regular army, of two strong brigades, was in the advance, followed immediately by another division under Colonel Beinizelman, of three brigades and seven companies of regular cavalry and twenty-four pieces of artillery--eighteen of which were rifle guns. This column, as it crossed Bull Run, numbered over 16,000 men of all arms by their own accounts. Burnside's brigade, which here, as at Fairfax C. H., led the advance, at about 9.45 A. M. debouched from a wood in sight of Evans's position, some 500 yards distant from Wheat's battalion. He immediately threw forward his skirmishers in force, and they became engaged with Wheat's command and the 6-pounder gun under Lieutenant Leftwich. The Federalists at once advanced, as they report officially, the ad Rhode Island regiment volunteers, with its vaunted battery of six 13-pounder rifle guns.