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The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], The destruction of the "Virginia." (search)
he should notify me when his preparations for the evacuation of Norfolk were sufficiently advanced to enable me to act independently. On the 7th instant Commodore Hollins reached Norfolk with orders from you to consult with me and such officers as I might select in regard to the best disposition to be made of the "Virginia" u and the officers present were Col. Anderson and Capt.--of the army, selected by Gen. Huger, who was too unwell to attend himself, and, of the navy, myself, Commodores Hollins, and Captains Sterrett and Lee, Commander Richard L. Jones, and Lieutenants Ap.Catesby Jones and J. Pembroke Jones. The opinion was unanimous that the chief pilot, Mr. Parrish, and his chief assistant, Mr. Wright, had asserted again and again; and on the afternoon of the 7th, in my cabin, in the presence of Commodore Hollins and Capt. Sterrett, in reply to a question of mine, they both emphatically declared their ability to do so. Confiding in these assurances, and, after co