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The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Letter from Pensacola. (search)
ey are the Illinois and Swan. The former anchored near the Niagara; the latter steered on to Fort Pickens. The Vanderbilt occupies the same position as yesterday. These vessels all appear crowded wen o'clock this evening the Vanderbilt left her anchorage, and is now close under the guns of Fort Pickens. A few minutes later and the Swedish war steamer steamed off to the eastward. Pensacolasupplied with ammunition for either war or target practice. Another deserter to-day from Fort Pickens. A mule from one of the recently arrived transports, not liking his quarters on the island, or driven to desperation by the sandflies, swam from the beach at Fort Pickens to our shore, and made his way to the hills, in spite of soldiers and batteries, which were charged in gallant style. Ven order for the transmission of its messages. A boat, under a white flag, came over from Fort Pickens yesterday evening. The visit was of a private character. The officer, a lieutenant, was met
The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Floyd Brigade, (search)
stationary property in and about them, had been seized and held in open hostility to this Government; excepting only Forts Pickens, Taylor and Jefferson, on and near the Florida coast, and Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, South Carolina. The n consummated. This could not be allowed. Starvation was not yet upon the garrisons, and ere it would be reached Fort Pickens might be reinforced. This last would be a clear indication of policy, and would better enable the country to accery necessity. An order was at once directed to be sent for the landing of the troops from the steamship Brooklyn into Fort Pickens. This order could not go by land, but must take the longer and slower route by sea. The first return news from tispatched, had only too vague and uncertain rumors to fix attention, had refused to land the troops. To now reinforce Fort Pickens, before a crisis could be reached at Fort Sumter, was impossible rendered so by the near exhaustion of provisions in t
The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 11 (search)
Mr. Wm. F. Tooley, a printer, died suddenly in Montgomery, Ala., on the 3d inst. The whole Federal force at Fort Pickens is said to be from 1,400 to 1,800.