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The Daily Dispatch: April 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Federal Telegrams. (search)
fired. The second shot was a splendid ricocheted shot. The immense ball, weighing 487 pounds, after making three plunges and renewed flights, finally sank away off near Sewell's Point. If the Merrimac could stand one of these Lincoln pills, as they are called here, she is indeed proof against all appliances of modern gunnery. There were some signs of activity towards Norfolk this morning. A steaming came down to Sewell's Point, and the smoke from a large vessel could be seen off Craney Island. A propeller, apparently a gunboat, came down James river within three miles of Newport News, and after reconnoitering apparently returned up the river. The present high wind and low water, however, forbids all expectation of the appearance of the Merrimac until the storm is over. Operations in North Carolina. Baltimore, March 30. --The rebels burned the bridge on the railroad between Newbern and Beaufort, but it was in progress of repair and the road would soon be
The Daily Dispatch: April 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], [correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] (search)
. Burnside, there are now no regular flags of truce as heretofore. The only flage recently have been these for the accommodation of the French and English officers. To- day, however, about 1 o'clock, a rebel steamer was observed off towards Craney Island, with the white flag flying Capt. Davis, of Gen. Wool's staff, in the absence of Capt Millward, the regular port Captain, started at 2 o'clock in the Rancocas, and was soon on his way up the Roads. On approaching the rebel steamer it proved gruder was there with 15,000 men. The "Iron Clads." A Fortress Monroe correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes that the "Merrimac" continues to be the subject of talk and of curiosity. Glasses are constantly directed toward Craney Island, and every indication of smoke or steam there is closely investigated by hundreds of eager eyes. Another correspondent writes. The latest news received here from Norfolk by the underground railroad, leaves no room for a doubt that the Me