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A big gun fight.

--The Pensacola correspondent of the Mobile Evening News, after speculating upon the time of the opening of fire upon Fort Pickens, says: ‘"But commence when it will, I don't think I risk much in saying that in sixty hours after the first gun is fired there will not be a Yankee left in Fort Pickens. A hundred and forty guns converging on any one point sixty hours would drive the devil from his hole. For several days it will be essentially a big gun fight — such a fight as was never witnessed on this continent — a cannonade that will shake the land and the sea." ’

The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. may 20, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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