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The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ng a late hour, and are now at Drury's Bluff ting further orders. It is believed that a river at that point will be properly obstructed by the sinking of boats and vessels. One of the vessels which attacked our batteries at short range was the iron-clad er Galena. The two others were supposed to be wooden vessels. The Curtis Pack was last evening taking troops for Drury's Bluff. We also learned the passengers from Norfolk that heavy ding was going on at Sewall's Point Craney Island yesterday morning. We learn from Captain Hill that he was day ordered by General Magruder, (now sick at Westover,) to take on at Berkley Clarf 110 barrels of flour and a large of bacon and beef, and proceed at up Chickahominy river to supply Commissary Department of our ar y. After having loaded, Capt. Hill proceeded thout delay; but upon arriving at Shop ari on James river, received a letter from William H. Southall, Esq., a magistrate of ries City county, in which it was s