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The Daily Dispatch: August 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
e enemy — holding the entire south bank of the James, and able to bring his artillery and mortars to bear upon the national encampments and gunboats — should not shower a storm of shot and shell into our lines at any moment. Whatever might be the amazement of the astonished telegrapher at this catastrophe, he may rest assured there is no one elsewhere to share it. But whatever the previous dangers from this source have been, the apprehension may now be laid aside. The appearance of Com. Porter's mortar fleet in the James river renders Gen. McClellan secure from the enemy's river batteries opposite his lines or below them. It makes it impracticable for the rebels to continue at their labor of throwing up works, planting guns, and massing troops at points most convenient for operating against him. The mortar boats, in conjunction with the fleet of gunboats already in the James, will be enabled to keep up a ceaseless shower of metal, solid and explosive, at all points on the ri