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The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], The War on the coast. (search)
coast. From the Savannah papers of Thursday last, we get some further intelligence of the state of affairs on the Florida coast. The Republican says: Capt. Clark, of Col. Davis's Mounted Regiment, of Florida, and a number of volunteer citizens, started from Callahan Station, on Wednesday night last, to intercept a FederaWilliam Clarke, took position on a bluff on the St. Mary's river, and waited the approach of a Federal gunboat. As they approached, a man at the masthead, espying Clark's company, cried out, "Here are the damned rebels." "Yes," said Clarks, "here we are!" With that he raised his rifle, and the lookout dropped dead on the deck from his lofty perch. Clark's men then gave three cheers, fired a volley, and twenty-five or thirty of the Federals were billed and wounded.--The gunboat not being able to contend with our men thus advantageously posted, retreated discomfited. The evacuation of Fernandina was conducted very badly, and much was lost owing to the in