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| Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 3 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1862., [Electronic resource] | 3 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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From the enemy's country.
--Messrs. O. H. Thomas and W. H. Dalrymple, natives of Virginia, lately arrived in Baltimore from California, across the plains, and succeeded in reaching Old Virginia's shore by embarking on the Potomac at night in a boat.
After considerable exertion they were enabled to make Point Lookout.
They were accompanied by Mr. W. S. Thompson, of Baltimore, an emigrant bound for the South Proceeding on, they reached the house of Mr. Sandy, in Essex county, and were brought to this place in a wagon on Sunday night, by him. The fugitives say that it was currently reported on the streets of Baltimore and Washington that both France and Spain had recognized the Southern Confederacy.
The intelligence was not allowed to be published in Northern journals.
In consequence of the lie, so often repeated, that armed negroes were employed in front of our lines to shoot down Yankee officers, the question as to the expediency of enlisting and arming regiments of Northern n
Additional from Norfolk.
Through conversation and reliable facts from unquestionable sources, we are additionally advised in regard to the evacuation and destruction of the works at Norfolk viz. That the Navy Yard was successfully fired and destroyed by a party of eight or ten Marylanders, under command of Lieutenant Spotswood.
The dock was blown up by pyrotechnics, under direction of Mr. Thompson also at Maryland, its gates and end being effectually blown out, so that the damage may be considered irreparable.
Every building and shed in the yard was totally consumed, except the moulding department, which unavoidably was left uninjured, owing to the want of proper combustibles.
Having laid waste everything, and applied the torch wherever practicable, the "firing party" proceeded to St. Helena, opposite, destroyed or burnt all the quarters there, and arriving at Portsmouth, fired every pound of cotton and tobacco, &c., leaving naught but ashes in their wake.
Such was the succe