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The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], $10 reward (search)
Norfolk, Va., July 23, 1861. The Message of President Davis, received here yesterday, excites much satisfaction. It is an able and candid document, and as such commands an attentive perusal. A salute was this morning fired from the battery at Fort Norfolk, in honor of the victory of our arms at Manassas. A large fleet recently came in the Roads and occasionally ran in the neighborhood of our batteries, then ran away again, fearful of receiving a shot from our guns, from which they have already learned a lesson. The main object of this reconnoitering is, if possible, to gain the location of our batteries. On Thursday nine or ten "crafts" were counted off Craney Island or Sewell's Point, and from their position, one would readily suppose that an attack was immediately to occur; but they very soon went seaward. This movement is attributed to the fact that they are greatly apprehensive of a certain personage at the Gosport Yard, who is superintending naval operati
The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway Negro. (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.affairs in Suffolk. Suffolk, July 23, 1861. On yesterday morning a large company of citizens assembled at the depot of the Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad to hear news from our army at Manassas, a rumor having somehow gotten afloat the previous evening that fighting was going on there. The first effect of the news when it reached us was subduing, and our hearts bled awhile for the noble Southrons who must have fallen in that terrible battle. But gratitude to the great God of armies, who dispensed the victory to our troops, soon filled our souls, dispelling for a time every other emotion; and at noon our churchbells, in one lusty chime of half an hour, pealed forth our exuberant joy. At 6 o'clock in the evening, the Methodist E. Church was thrown open to give an opportunity to the citizens to unite in returning thanks to Almighty God for his blessing upon us, but that service was entirely prevented by one of the heaviest rain storms we