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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1865., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Dutch Gap Canal (United States) or search for Dutch Gap Canal (United States) in all documents.
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The War news.
The most interesting news of the day is brought us by the Northern papers, and is the announcement that Butler's much-talked-of Dutch Gap canal has at length been completed.
The importance of this news remains to be seen.
If it is a success; that is, if it admits the passage through it of the Yankee fleet, it is an important and useful work to the enemy, inasmuch as it puts them about six miles nearer the city by water than they would be had they been obliged to make the trip around Farrar's island, which is the name of the peninsula of which Dutch gap was the isthmus.
If it proves unnavigable to monitors and gunboats, the whole vast undertaking is so much time and labor lost.
But even should it float the monitors comfortably, it is yet to be tested whether our batteries on the south side of James river and west of the gap will not effectually blockade its navigation.
We think they will.
The Yankees tell us the canal has fifteen feet of water in it at high