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The Daily Dispatch: August 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch. (search)
From Norfolk. [Special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Norfolk, Aug. 29th, 1861. The Federal fleet that sailed from Old Point a few days ago, and mentioned in my last letter, is said to have gone to Roanoke Island, N. C., about 100 miles south of Cape Henry. This small Island is situated to the eastward of Tyrell county, and is surrounded by a vast sheet of water which connects Albemarle and Pamilco Sounds, and too shallow, of course, for large vessels.* I learn that Simon Cameron, Federal Secretary of War, whose brother was killed at Manassas, is the same individual who, about ten years ago, was connected with the Gosport Iron Works, on the opposite side of the river, and a few hundred feet from the entrance to the Navy-Yard. He was concerned with A. Mahaffey, of Pennsylvania. They got the contract for building the machinery for the U. S. steamer Powhatan, and the work was done, for which the concern received ample remuneration. They bought valuable property in a