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The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
hing was quiet, but it was understood at the fortress that a large Confederate force had concentrated at Yorktown. On Saturday a flag of truce was sent to Craney Island, when it was discovered that the Confederates had erected a powerful battery on Willougliby's Point, bearing directly on the Rip-Raps, and which is intended toneral. Col. Butler goes to New York this evening with important Government dispatches. the Fanny has just returned. She was permitted to go as far as Craney Island. Gen. Huger sent a dispatch to Gen. Butler. A steamer will bring a large number of fugitives from Norfolk on Tuesday. Craney Island and the adjacent main lanCraney Island and the adjacent main land bristles with cannon. The rebels are fast throwing up entrenched batteries at the extremity of Sewell's Point, and also opposite the Rip Raps. the New Creek Dredge affair. a gentleman of Baltimore who spent some three weeks in the vicinity of Frostburg, Allegany county, left there on Friday last. He passed through Cum