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The Daily Dispatch: may 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 24 (search)
h the intention of running her up the James river to Richmond. But finding their plans betrayed, they determined to come down into the Roads and cover their retreat, which was then going on at Norfolk and Craney Island. When our fleet shelled Sewell's Point, there were only two companies stationed there to keep up appearance. The Merrimac, according to arrangement, came down, not to fight, but to cover the retreat, which was then going on. The officers knew that the Galena, Aristook and Port Royal had gone up the James river there — for their project in that direction was decidedly impolitic. On Saturday night a consultation took place on board the Merrimac. The conference ended with the determination to blow her up and destroy one of the rebellion's greatest hopes. So great was the hurry of the debarkation that nothing but the officers' and men's effects were removed. They did not even spike the guns, as was their intention. They took off the locks, and adjusting the slow