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The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The fight at Drury's Bluff.Northern account.a serious Defeat Admitted.Bursting of a Parrot gun.the Galena riddled by shot.other boats Damaged.from Norfolk and Portsmouth.Trading Propensities of the Yankees, &c. Petersburg, May 23. --Late Northern papers received here contain some interesting news. The repulse of the gunboats at Drury's Bluff had a most depressing effect in New York and Philadelphia. It was regarded as a very serious affair at Old Point, but no full account was allowed to be made public Seventeen men were killed on the Saugatuck by the explosion of a hundred pound Parrot gun.--The boat was made useless and withdrawn from the fight. The Gatena was riddled by shots from the rebel batteries Eighteen went through her decks and sides. Fourteen of the crew were killed and thirteen wounded. The killed were terribly cut and mangled — many beyond the hope of recognition. The Monitor maintained its reputation for superior strength and invulnerability. The b