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The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
From Fortress Monroe.Northern accounts. The Baltimore Sun, of the 20th inst., has the following: The steamer Adelaide, Captain Cannon, arrived yesterday morning from Old Point Comfort. She brought up a number of passengers, among whom are Colonel Bartlett, of the naval brigade, which is disbanded, Mr. Hildreth, brother-in-law of Gen. Butler, and wife. There was on Tuesday morning a trial of the large rifle cannon recently placed on the Rip Raps. Eleven shells were thrown towards Sewell's Point, three or four of which exploded on the beach, three passed across the point into the channel, and the remainder fell short of the Point Sewell's Point is not visible from the Rip Raps, and the distance is forty-eight hundred yards. Gen. Butler went to Newport News Point in a steaming to witness the trial, and from that point regulated the proper elevation of the piece by signals — The Confederates are said to have a battery on Willoughby's Point, which is only twenty-five hund