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Batteries against ships.

We have lately given, from high military authority, a multitude of cases in which batteries are shown to have been able to repel ships carrying many more guns and a much larger force. The James and York rivers ought to be lined with these batteries. In the late war, the villagers in Stonington, Connecticut, drove off a British fleet with only two cannon, one of which, for want of powder, was only used during part of the action. We advise our own people to act on ‘ "their own hook,"’ sink obstructions in the streams where necessary, and employ their whole force in erecting earth-works. There is a host of unemployed negroes in Richmond, who ought to have been put to work long ago.

The Daily Dispatch: may 8, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. may 8, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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