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The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Capitol Buildings, &c. (search)
n of an error in a communication in yesterday's paper: To the Editors of the Dispatch:--I desire to correct a statement that appeared in your paper of this morning. On Sunday, 20th April, my family were aroused by a servant crying out that Norfolk was in flames. In the excitement of the moment, two of my daughters determined to go over to Fortress Monroe and demand the reason for so gross an act of vandalism being perpetrated on defenceless women and children, and to say to the officers so unholy a warfare. They then went into the garrison, but had no pistols. Met Col. Dimmick and Capt.Dyer, and were treated with the characteristic courtesy and kindness that always distinguishes those officers, and by them were informed that Norfolk was not burned. They did ask if the ladies of Mill Creek and Hampton would be permitted to throw up batteries without being fired on; but this assurance was not given. I also feel it a duty to mention in this communication the mistakes wit