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The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
t Lincoln's emancipation proclamation. The Confederates building rams and gunboats at Mobile. One of the New York papers publishes the following on the authority of three Confederate deserters, who lately escaped from Mobile: These men report that the Confederates Force in Mobile aggregates but 7,000 men, under General Buckner; the naval force, under Admiral Buchanan, comprises three wooden steam gunboats of ten guns each, viz: The Gaines, Captain Thos. Hunter; the Morgan, Captain Blair; the Selma, Captain P. U. Murphy; the revenue cutter Alert, under a Lieutenant; the rain Baltic, Captain Johnson. Besides these vessels, the rebels are building, at Selma, a fifty gun frigate, iron-clad which they intend floating down the river on hog heads. There are now two rams ready at that point, and on the day the three men left a draft of twenty four sailors were sent up the river to take them down. Two more rams were nearly finished and expected down in a few weeks. The c