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The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
e point from which it was said the steamer Express took the powder. The U. S. Naval Hospital is nearly due South from the point of the wharf; the top of the cut is due North and the bottom South. From the wharf, in a line South by West and about 2,700 feet across the river, is the site of old Fort Nelson, long since removed and now used as a portion of the Naval Hospital grounds. In a line West by South is the wharf known as Hardy's Wharf, while the same line extended, would pass through Mr. Todd's residence on Smith's Point. The walls of the fort are built of brick, and are rendered "doubly secure" by the earth work within, which is thrown up like an embankment against the wall; in warm weather this embankment is covered with a green turf, which commences on the top of the wall or ramparts, and slopes down towards the centre of the fort. There are two or three small and unimportant buildings inside the garrison.--They were used as cartridge and shell houses, but the impressi