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The Daily Dispatch: March 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], Notes of the War. (search)
d armed steamers of light draft from the mainland, and placing them under, the command of Commander P. Drayton, of the steam-sloop Pawnee, I ordered him to push through the Sound with the utmost speed. In consequence of the bad weather I was unable to cross the bar till this morning. Commander Drayton, accompanied by Commander O. R. P. Rodgers, with the armed launches and cutters, and the sm the Wabash, had arrived several hours before me. Immediately on his entering the harbor, Commander Drayton sent Lieutenant White, of the Ottowa, to hoist the flag on Fort Clinch, the first of the nown by the flying enemy, when it was discovered that a railroad train was about to start. Commander Drayton, on board the Ottowa, Lieutenant-Commanding Stevens; chased the train for two miles, and fhe morning the town of Fernandina was also occupied by a party of seamen and marines, from Commander Drayton's command. In both places most of the inhabitants had fied, by order, it is said, of the