Named Entity Results, Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States)

Federal war Steamers in action — Accounts from Fortress Monroe. Fortress Monroe, (via Augusta, Ga.,) June 26 --The gun-boat Monticello proceeded up the Rappahannock, where a party went ashore and were surprised. Nine of them were wounded--one mortally. The Monticello opened fire, and the Southerners dispersed. [This is the Northern account of the affair in Lancaster county, Va., probably, though it is communicated in such vague terms as to render it almost unintelligible.] Fortress Monroe, (via Augusta, Ga.,) June 26 --The gun-boat Monticello proceeded up the Rappahannock, where a party went ashore and were surprised. Nine of them were wounded--one mortally. The Monticello opened fire, and the Southerners dispersed. [This is the Northern account of the affair in Lancaster county, Va., probably, though it is communicated in such vague terms as to render it almost unintelligible.] The steamer Quaker City "brushed" a party of Cavalry near Cape Henry Beach. A seaman on board was killed. The steamer's shells dispersed the Cavalry. The Amelia, from Liverpool for Charleston, has been captured, (by one of the Federal piratical squadron.) Fifty refugees have arrived at the Fortress from Norfolk under a flag of truce. They say the Sewell's Pointers regard Sawyer's rifled gun, at the Rip-Raps, with contempt.

Correction. --A letter from Lieut. Maury says that the two Yankee deserters from the Georgia Regiment, who recently escaped from our camp to the enemy at Fortress Monroe, did not leave Sewell's Point as have been represented in some of the newspapers.