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The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
clothing being deducted from their pay. They are required to labor hard, and the unfavorable change on their constitution is said to be killing them off quite rapidly. On Saturday next the fair and patriotic ladies of the Cockade City, will present that excellent company, the Petersburg City Guard, with a beautiful and costly flag. The pleasant ceremonies will take place at Academy Square, at 10 o'clock, A. M. On Friday last that gallant officer, Col. De Lagnel, took charge at Craney Island. The manly bearing, and well-known ability and bravery of this officer will doubtless ensure the love, respect, and confidence of his entire command. It is announced by the Day Book of this morning that Col. R. E. Colston, of the 16th Regiment Virginia Volunteers, has been promoted to be a Brigadier General. We mention with pleasure the promotion of that popular and skillful officer. Persons writing letters to send to the North should not exceed an ordinary page of letter pap
The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], The late Naval engagement between the sea Bird and nine Yankee gun-boats. (search)
The late Naval engagement between the sea Bird and nine Yankee gun-boats. --Com. Lynch's Official Report.--The following is an extract from the report of Capt. Lynch to the Navy Department, of the recent naval engagement near Newport News: The water being too low in the Chesapeake and Albemarle Canal for this vessel (the Sea Bird) to proceed to Roanoke Island, we last evening steamed down and anchored in the height of Craney Island. This morning, a little before daylight, we weighted anchor and stood across to Newport News. About 7.30 A. M. an enemy's steamer passed out of James river, with a schooner in tow, and steered for Fortress Monroe. We immediately gave chase, when she cut the schooner adrift, and carried a heavy head of steam, in order to get under the cover of numerous men of war lying off the Fortress. We were last closing in with her, however, when the explosion of our second shell set her on fire. Believing her destruction was certain, knowing that her cr