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The Daily Dispatch: February 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
ilding used as a hospital in Elizabeth City. It will be seen by telegraphic dispatches from this place that large reinforcements are to be sent to Gen. Burnside, which will probably give him an army of, perhaps, 40,000 men. Some suppose that an effort will be made soon by the Federal General, at Soaroke, to get up in their country as far as Suffolk, for the purpose of cutting off our supplies. It is said, too, that an effort will be made by the Lincolnites to send a large force up Nansemond river to Suffolk, to meet the army from Roanoke. It is not impossible that they design to attempt to get possession of the railroads, and force their way up into the country towards this city of Richmond. And it is very doubtful that they will succeed. It is certain, however, that they will not be allowed to do so without a proper effort to drive them back to their wooden walls. The Yankees say they are determined to retake the Navy-Yard, and they have a special and venomous spite aga