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The Daily Dispatch: September 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Pensacola. (search)
fused to let us meddle with. The steamer from the yard this morning, corroborated the belief of our citizens here, as to its being the Dock. Many thought it was burned by the Lincolnites, but I have ascertained that it was done by orders from Gen. Bragg. Why it was done, nobody knows; but it was for a purpose beneficial to us, or Gen. Bragg would not have ordered it done. Quite an excitement was caused by the discovery of the burning of the Dock, which was heightened this morning about 9Gen. Bragg would not have ordered it done. Quite an excitement was caused by the discovery of the burning of the Dock, which was heightened this morning about 9 o'clock, by sudden firing from towards the frigate Colorado, which proved to be the arrival of the sloop-of-war Savannah, which I had noticed with the glass for some time coming along from the Eastward. On the arrival of the Savannah she fired a salute of thirteen guns, a Commodore's salute, which was answered by the Colorado with nine guns. At the commencement of the firing the city was in agitation, believing that it was opened on account of the burning of the Dock. But it was soon dispell