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The Daily Dispatch: may 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
Northern papers received contain some further news of the war. We make up the following summary: The expedition up James river. Washington, May 19. --At the time of the preparation of this dispatch, no official dispatches had been received regarding Commodore Goldsborough's expedition up the James river, but the following statement, gleaned from the Evening Star and other sources, it is believed embraces the material facts: Com. Goldsborough was accompanied by the steam frigat at Fort Darling, and also of the bursting of the Haugatuck's large gun, and the evacuation by the rebels of all their James river fortifications and batteries below Fort Darling, which was supposed to have taken place on the previous Wednesday nigh against the works, as well as the supply vessels necessary to make any future naval attack upon it effective. The James river and its banks is now clear of rebel vessels and soldiers in arms up to a point eight miles below Richmond. Formal
The Daily Dispatch: may 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], From city Point. (search)
From city Point. --We have intelligence from City Point up to 11 o'clock yesterday forenoon. There were then eleven Yankee gunboats visible from the Point. Three have positions in the mouth of the Appomattox, two up James river some two miles from the Point, and six are between City Point and Harrison's Bar. On Saturday evening about 6 o'clock, the vandals espied some of our pickets in pursuit of water, and immediately opened their big guns, firing indiscriminately at every house, bush, and tree in the vicinity. Several of the buildings at City Point were penetrated by the huge shot of the enemy, but not living creature sustained any injury, save a calf. The poor animal was struck by a shell after it had passed through a building, and instantly killed. All the houses at the Point, save one, were deserted by their occupants several days since. This is still occupied by an old negro man, who has taken up the idea that he wears a charmed life, and cannot be injured by Yan
The Daily Dispatch: may 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], The action at Forts Jackson and St. Philip. (search)
Gunboats. The following communication from Brigadier-General Whiting contains some interesting facts concerning gunboats. It shows that their capabilities are very much magnified, and that they are not the all powerful and irresistible things many prominent persons even at the South have regarded them to be. The lesson taught at the obstruction in James river by our three-gun battery has helped to dispel the delusion that had prevailed on the subject. If the powerful vessels then essaying to reach the capital (one of whose officers informed an old acquaintance on board the boat that carried the Yankee prisoners down the river, that he would dine in Richmond the day after the bombardment commenced!) were unable to pass while the obstruction was not complete, and when it was defended by only three guns in battery, what chance do those boats stand now? It is clear that the enemy can never reach Richmond by the river. He has had his gunboat conceit taken out of him to that exten