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The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
hree Confederate deserters, who lately escaped from Mobile: These men report that the Confederates Force in Mobile aggregates but 7,000 men, under General Buckner; the naval force, under Admiral Buchanan, comprises three wooden steam gunboats of ten guns each, viz: The Gaines, Captain Thos. Hunter; the Morgan, Captain Blair; the Selma, Captain P. U. Murphy; the revenue cutter Alert, under a Lieutenant; the rain Baltic, Captain Johnson. Besides these vessels, the rebels are building, at Selma, a fifty gun frigate, iron-clad which they intend floating down the river on hog heads. There are now two rams ready at that point, and on the day the three men left a draft of twenty four sailors were sent up the river to take them down. Two more rams were nearly finished and expected down in a few weeks. The channel in Mobile bay is blocked up by sunken vessels, but there are no torpedoes sunk in it. The rebels possess, however, a peculiar invention in the shape of an 'infernal' arr