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The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Defences of James river. (search)
ck upon shore batteries. We believed what the whole experience of naval warfare had testified, with scarcely an exception, that guns ashore were more than a match for guns afloat. The history of the present war has not proved that idea a fallacy, but it has exhibited a most mortifying succession of disasters, arising from badly constructed and badly located fortifications, in every encounter but one between the Confederates and the Federal fleets. That exception was a glorious one; it was Bragg's defence of Pensacola, and in driving off with case the most powerful man of-war in the Federal navy, he showed what could be done by land batteries, if built and placed in a proper manner. But if, at the be ginning of the war, we might invoke (as we long invoked in vain) the attention of our people to the thorough fortification of James river, how much more so now with the lights of the present contest. Wherever the Yankee gunboats have penetrated, our fortifications, with the except