It is well known that the
Yankees, in all their allusions to our batteries at
Drewry's Bluff, have applied to them the name ‘"
Fort Darling,"’ and some indignation has been manifested at their assumption of the right to christen a locality which the
South has made formidable.
It is not, however, original with them, for that portion of the shore of
James River will be found designated on some of the old maps as ‘"Darling's Point," ’ from which they borrowed the idea; but the name should be forever ignored in the
Confederate States, because it was fished up by the
Yankees from the depths of the almost oblivious past, and because ‘"Fort Drewry."’ the term given it by those who gallantly repulsed the enemy's best gunboats, is not only proper as a compliment to one of our commanders, but in every respect applicable to the locality.