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The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Stop the Runaway (search)
ws, blockading the entrance to James river, attempted to go down to Fort Monroe. When nearly opposite the battery at Sewell's Point a shot was fired from that place, which brought her to. She returned the fire, but after several shots had been exchang. Yesterday afternoon the tug Young America ran up within a mile and exchanged two or three shots with the fort at Sewell's Point, but being backed out by the fire from the fort, she ran off to the steam frigate Minnesota, which came up and roundemiles (which is as near almost as she can approach) from the fort, and opened with shot and shell upon the battery at Sewell's Point, firing about fifteen times. The battery answered with great spirit from several heavy guns, which caused her to bactained. The turning back of the steamer from James river, I think, will be of great advantage, as the battery at Sewell's Point will soon be in a condition to protect the entrance, and thus break up the blockade, so far as the passage from Richm
The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], North Carolina. (search)
ised. I fear there will be a so-called Union vote here, which will range to 70, all told. No important move has taken place here since my letter of yesterday. The firing which I mentioned as going on at 10 A. M. yesterday, was not from Sewell's Point as I supposed, but is said to have been a salute at Old Point, probably in honor of one of the Lincoln General recently ordered to that post. Yesterday afternoon there was a flag presentation at the Pinner's Point battery. It was a flagay an able-bodied gang of negro laborers to do work on the harbor defences. The Beauregard Rifles, from Lynchburg, have reached Norfolk. Though but recently organized, they are noted for their soldierly bearing and movement. They go to Sewell's Point, where the Chevalier Colquitt commands, and which seems to be now the most prominent and interesting object in the estimation of Pendergrast and his noble conferrers. How is it Pender has had Stringham placed over him? Was it for his brave
The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Clarksville, Mecklenburg Co, Va., May 20th, 1861. (search)
Tuesday afternoon a large steamer arrived at Fortress Monroe, with a regiment from Massachusetts, comprising 600 men. As she approached, Com. Pendergast ordered the yards of the fleet to be manned, and the new arrival was cheered as the steamer passed. The regiment was immediately marched into the fort. The force now in Fortress Monroe is nearly four thousand, and a constant guard is kept from the fort to Hampton. In the battle between the Star (late Monticello) and the battery on Sewell's Point, on Sunday, the S. received seven shot from the battery. One ball passed through her pilot house, and mortally wounded a boy; another penetrated her larboard bow, about eighteen inches above the water line, and a third passed through her boiler-house and lodged in one of the coal bunkers, and four others penetrated her hull in different places. She was so much disabled that she had to be towed off. Besides the boy, three men were injured, one severely and the others slightly, Since Sun