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The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Puritan Consistency. (search)
is equally true. In it he states that "he sighted his rifled gun at the Harriet Lane. " The Harriet Lane is not anywhere near Hatteras, being at present flag-ship of the Potomac flotilla. Again, he says that he came within easy range. A person who was present at the time informs us that the Curlew did not venture within nearly four miles of the batteries, and that her shot fell short about one mile and a half. So much for the report of Captain Hunter. News from Gen. Banks's army. Darnestown, Nov. 4. --Several bodies of the victims of Ball's Bluff floated down the Potomac yesterday and Saturday. Five of them beached on the Virginia shore, and the rebel pickets solicited the assistance of our pickets to cross the river and help bury them, which request, report says, was concurred in. The former, in conversation, said that if Gen. Stone's forces had pushed on to Leesburg on Tuesday succeeding the bloody Monday, the town would have fallen an easy prey, but had the attack b