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The Daily Dispatch: September 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 11 (search)
death of a Confederate officer--"Old St. Paul's" Burying-ground — companies Disbanding, &c. Norfolk, Sept. 13, 1861. a flag of truce was sent up to Craney Island yesterday, from Fortress Monroe, with six ladies who reside in the South, and three of the wounded prisoners from Rich Mountain. A large number of letters were also brought with the flag of truce. the death of Lieutenant U. F. Sherrill, of company K, second Regiment North Carolina Volunteers, is announced. At a meeting of the commissioned officers of a detachment of the Regiment, resolutions were passed relative to the deceased, from which I copy the first two: 1. Resolved, That in the death of Lieutenant Sherrill we have lost a noble and prudent man, a generous friend and an officer whose efficiency and kindness endeared him to both officers and men. 2. Resolved, That in our intercourse with him, both socially and officially, we have ever found him at his post, ready and willing to d
The Daily Dispatch: September 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Recruiting in Canada. (search)
nfederates were trying the range of their new guns. A deserter states that the Confederate force there numbers about two thousand men. Quartermaster Tallmadge is making arrangements to quarter contraband slaves at Old Point, in comfortable wooden barracks outside the fortress. Release of a prize schooner — gun-boat sunk. This morning the Pusey towed down the river the schooner Remittance, of Baltimore, captured by the Yankee near Port Tobacco not long since. It appeared upon examination that her cargo, consisting of tobacco, &c., was consigned to parties in Baltimore, and there being no proof of her being engaged in illegitimate traffic, she was released and allowed to proceed on her destination. Last Tuesday night the steamer State of Maine, Captain Simmons, which brought around the seamen from Boston, ran over the gun-boat Tigress, off Craney Island, sinking her immediately. The crew were picked up by the boats of the steamer, and placed on board the Yankee.
The Daily Dispatch: September 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
t statements at all calculated to give any information at all beneficial to our enemies or hurtful to the Southern cause are carefully avoided in the correspondence as well as in any other department of your paper. Much intelligence, exceedingly interesting, but which might prove serviceable to the enemy, of course is withheld entirely. Complaints will, nevertheless, sometimes be made, and when any published statement is respectfully alluded to, of course it is proper that the matter should be respectfully heeded. The public demands war news and must be supplied; but it is very essential of course that a wise discretion should be constantly exercised with regard to the probable effect of any information before it appears in public print. A flag of truce went down to Old Point this morning, and some passengers detained at Old Point will be sent to Craney Island, from the Fort, to-morrow. There is some movement of troops hereabouts, but the particulars I cannot give you.