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The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
steamer came in from Fernandina with reports indicating that the force of 1,000 negroes which descended the St. Mary's river on the 9th of March had met with a most severe reverse and probably had been captured. It will be remembered that this force carried with it several thousand muskets for the avowed purpose of supplying with arms all the slaves whom they could incite to insurrection. If the report referred to prove true both the negroes and their commanders, Cols, Higgluron and Montgomery, and all the white officers, have probably been shot, in accordance with the announcement made by Jeff. Davis in his proclamation retaliatory of President 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 Buckn