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The Daily Dispatch: October 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Late Northern war News. (search)
Vessels continue to come up the Potomac to the city, dodging Confederate batteries at night, safely enough, with Government stores and other supplies. At the navy-yard, the urgency of labor is not necessarily so great now as it has been lately. For some months the men, in nearly all branches, have had to labor incessantly, Sunday included. Yesterday was a day of rest. The Harriet Lane, there, is taking on heavier armament of 32-pounders, and the Pawnee, Pocahontas, Seminole, and Anacostia are undergoing repairs, changing armament, &c., &c. Another case of habeas corpus, with the view of procuring the discharge of Richard A. Lucas, a minor, from the 1st District Regiment Volunteers, was before Judge Merrick this morning; but as there were indications that the boy enlisted with the consent of his parents, he was remanded back to his company. I saw President Lincoln and Mrs. Lincoln riding out this afternoon towards the Arsenal, which place they visited. General
The Daily Dispatch: may 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], The action at Forts Jackson and St. Philip. (search)
rifled shells. The camp was shelled repeatedly, and fire started in it ones by some camphene contrivance in the missile. We had but one casualty. During the same time, the enemy's gunboats fired between one hundred and two hundred heavy shell at a single picket station on the Potomac, without either hurting a man or driving off the guard. The gallant Major Walker, of the artillery, unlimbered his battery in the open field, and for several hours engaged the Pawnee, Live Yankee, Anacostia, and a tug, at long range, without a single casualty, compelling the boats to retire. They were commanded by a brave officer of the U. S. N.--Capt. Rowan--who is reported to have lost an arm in the fight. The battery at Aquia Creek was shelled for three days last summer by the Potomac flee, one vessel along expending several hundred shell with no other effect than a scratch on one man's hand and the killing of a trooper's horse in the rear of the battery. Major Walker was over t
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