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The Daily Dispatch: may 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ritish bark Volant, and the Swedish brig Tyrus, were permitted to communicate with their consignee in Norfolk. The Norfolk L. A. Blues have come up from Carney Island, where they have been hard at work erecting the battery at that most important point. One hundred and fifty men from Fort Monroe have taken possession of Mill Creek Bridge and the well of water on Captain Clark's place, which is now guarded by a force of seventy-five men. Mrs. Clopton's place is also threatened by Capt. Dimmick. Hampton was excited; but the Ape's soldiers held and hold possession. The small trees and undergrowth between the gunner's house and the water fronting the Navy-Yard have been burnt. This is on the public property known as St. Helena, where the battery to be raised is now progressing. The chief work at the Navy-Yard is the manufacture of gun-carriages and the removal to the interior (up the road and by water through the canal,) of the big guns. There is here an eleven-inch gun,
The Daily Dispatch: may 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Southern Baptist Convention. (search)
olk Argus has the following information from Mr. Wm. A. Hines, of Hampton, who reached Norfolk in a canoe, after having been chased twice by Lincoln's em: On Monday, about 10 A. M., two companies of Federal troops, numbering about 150 men, marched out of the fort and took possession of the Mill Creek Bridge and Capt. Clark's place on the Hampton side of the creek. To the remonstrance of Lieut. Wm. Vaughan, of the cavalry, officer of the guard, on the illegality of his proceedings, Capt. Dimmick replied that he wanted water for his men and he would have it. "Might makes right." To the cool courage displayed by Lieut. Vaughan and the guard stationed at that point, great praise is due. When it was reported in Hampton that old Abe's hordes were marching on the town, the scene was truly exciting. Men and boys, old and young, and even the lame, discarding for the time their crutches, seized their loaded guns and went to the bridge which spans the creek, on the side of the town