The Daily Dispatch: April 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2

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[Special Dispatch to the Richmond Dispatch.]
important from new York.

Fort Sumter to be reinforced to-day — the
Morris Island batteries to be taken.

New York, April 10.

--The Ocean Queen and one or two more tug-boats have been chartered by the Government. It is also in treaty for the Vanderbilt.
Recruits continue to arrive daily at Governor's Island. From 400 to 500 are on hand at the different posts.
A Washington dispatch says Fort Sumter is to be supplied to-morrow at daylight, * by small boats filled with sand-bags and yawls with troops — the yawls to go on the side next Fort Sumter, having the small boats between them and the enemies'batteries.
The war vessels are to protect with their fire a force which is to be landed at Morris' Island, to take the batteries there. Allen.
[This coincides with the statement in another dispatch from Virginias. The flood tide at Charleston this morning occurs a little after 7:00 o'clock]

The Daily Dispatch: April 11, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. April 11, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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[Special Dispatch to the Richmond Dispatch.]important from new York.

Fort Sumter to be reinforced to-day — theMorris Island batteries to be taken.

[Special Dispatch to the Richmond Dispatch.]
important from new York.

Fort Sumter to be reinforced to-day — the
Morris Island batteries to be taken.