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The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], Notes of the War. (search)
r, Governor of the Common wealth of Virginia, by virtue of the authority aforesaid, do hereby order and prescribe the following, and require the officers hereafter mentioned to execute this law and these provisions with promptness and energy. The enrolling officers, who are the Sheriffs, Sergeants, and Commissioners of the Revenue, shall enroll all the white male inhabitants of the city of Richmond who reside in and around it, within one mile of the corporation line, on the North side of James river; all the white male inhabitants of the cities of Petersburg, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Lynchburg, and of the town of Fredericksburg, who reside within a half mile of the said cities and town, and who are between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, and forty-five and fifty-five years, including adjourners who may be refugees from any other parts of this State, and are not else where enrolled under the provision of the act of the eighth of February last. The persons so to be enrolled constitu
The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], An incident. (search)
River and harbor defence --We are far from assuming that by any possible combination of circumstances likely to be formed, that the Yankee desperadoes, with their iron-clad gunboats, could ever make their way up James river to this city. Should our authorities ever consider such a state of things as likely to occur, we submit for their consideration some of the requisites for successful river and harbor defence, premising that the writer of the prepositions is not unknown to fame in naval annals: 1. The first requisite to a battery commanding a channel is, that the battery itself shall be barricaded by sunken vessels; piles driven well down and secured together by chain cables, or, where heavy trees can be procured, as the live oak of the South, by tier upon tier of the latter; but the first is the speediest and most effectual and makes the best barricade. 2.The battery should always be bombproof, otherwise, as at Roanoke Island, the sweep of shot and shell will com