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The Daily Dispatch: September 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], The New York Herald upon the Situation. (search)
thoroughly that all reports concur in the assurance that if our army had proceeded at any time within a week it could have taken Washington without firing a gun, if the whole Federal force has been exterminated in Missouri, and Ben McCulloch is in full march for St. Louis, it has all been nothing more than a joke on the part of the Lincoln Government, who, until now, would never permit anything earnest or serious to enter into their calculations. At last, however, the glorious affair of Cape Hatteras, which consists in the capture of two sand-banks and 700 men, by a powerful fleet that never came within reach of the batteries on shore, the proclamation of Fremont in Missouri, and the stern discipline of McClellan, which has brought the "Grand Army" into such a state of efficiency that "it is ready for an advance into Virginia," have put an end to the jokes of the Cabinet, which, it is to be presumed, have not taken very well of late. The country is called on to look out for great th
The Daily Dispatch: September 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], The bombardment and capture of forts Clark and Hatteras. (search)
nts, no controversy is necessary for any honest or useful purposes. Let the patriot press confine itself to the duty of spreading truth before the people, with such comments as may be necessary to illustrate that truth; nor yield to the temptation of resentments that magnify the little and give apparent consequence to the base and selfish. Location of Hatteras. The Wilmington Journal says: Hatteras Inlet appears by the coast survey map to be about 11 or 12 miles south of Cape Hatteras, and 15 or 16 north of Ocracoke.--There is a pretty good harbor with deep water extending in about half a mile. There is, however, a shoal between this and the deep water of the Sound, over which eight feet may be carried at extreme high water. With Hatteras Inlet on the south and Oregon Inlet on the north of the dreaded Cape, chartered blockade steamers may be able to hover around during the winter. Without them they could not, and privateers cannot. There is no use trying to gainsa