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The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ranaway--$100 reward. (search)
s atmosphere of Dumfries; intermittent and remittent fever, and pneumonia and pleurisy have lately commenced to appear.--There have been a few surgical cases, the result of accidental shooting, treated successfully in these hospitals. The per centage of death, as I have been informed, is quite small, not above four or five per cent of the number entered. Thus far the hospitals have received but little support — there being but one lady who has sent in any contributions, and that one Miss Virginia Tayloe, late of Washington, but who now resides in Fredericksburg. This evening, about sunset, a large schooner came up the river, and sailed slowly by our batteries. They opened fire upon her vigorously, but still she continued in her course. The Maryland battery commenced throwing shells this side, each one bursting with great accuracy, but fortunately doing no damage. Some fifteen or twenty shots were sent at the schooner, but they either failed to hit her, or at least did not st