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The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
Late Northern news.burning of Harper's Ferry.operations on the Potomac.Affairs in Alexandria.&c., &c., &c., From our Northern files, of the 10th, we continue to make up the following summary of the news: The burning of Harper's Ferry--Federal account. Sandy Hook, Md., Feb. 8. --On Thursday night, about 1 o'clock, Major Tyndall's pickets, stationed on the Maryland side of the Potomac, and along the village of Sandy Hook, were alarmed by a gunshot from the foot of Londoun Heights, just below the embouchure of the Shenandoah, followed by female shrieks of murder and cries for help--Colonel Geary, who was at the Major's quarters, immediately ordered a corps of riflemen to concentrate opposite the point whence the cries emanated, and fire continuously on the level of the road at the foot of the mountain, and on both sides of the house where the cries were heard. The order was obeyed, and when the morn broke it was learned that the house of the widow Slipes had been broke
The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Kentucky. (search)
nder provision. Orders have been issued from headquarters in reference to the capture of Fort Henry, to the effect that the position shall be held at whatever cost. The report that Gen. McClellan's command is hereafter to be confined to the department of the Potomac is not without foundation, but no order for the purpose has been yet issued. It has been a common remark that the duties imposed on Gen. McClellan were too burdensome for one man. Affairs in New York. New York, Feb. 8. --The remaining vessels at the Brooklyn navy-yard, belonging to Commodore Porter's mortar fleet, will sail in a few days to the place of rendezvous.--About half of the fleet has already been dispatches thither. The mortars to be used have an average weight of about 17,000 pounds, and will carry a shell, it is stated, a distance of 2ΒΌ miles. The ship George Washington, 1,534 tons, rating A 1, and the Great Republic, put down on the record as 3,356 tons, with the same rating, have