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The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 23 (search)
[Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.]the Yankee fleet off the Seacoast. Charleston, Jan. 11, 1862. The Yankee fleet on this coast is composed partly of fine steamers, robbed by them from our people of Charleston and Savannah. These vessels are the John P. King, Columbia, James Adger, Marton, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Huntsville, R. R. Cuyler, Montgomery, Alabama, Florida, and Huntress. They have changed the names of many, on the principle that marks on stolen property must be erased or changed. They happened to be in New York about the time of Lincolns inauguration as President, and were detained by their rascally agents there on various pretexts until they were stolen by order the Yankee Government. A large number of the Northern merchant vessels were in our ports at the same time, but our notions of honesty prevented our detaining them, and they were permitted to go. Had we exercised some of the same Yankee trickery, we might now have had a f
The Daily Dispatch: February 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 19 (search)
deral Government has done everything in its power to shut the door which, with the view of sparing it humiliation, Lord Russell in his subsequent dispatch was desirous to leave open. The blockade of the Nashville.[from the London post (Government organ) Jan. 13. The Nashville imprudently remains too long, the intelligence that she is refitting from stem to stern flies to America, and, quick as lightning, out comes the Tuscarora to make up for the short-comings of the less vigilant James Adger. The Tuscarora catches the Nashville napping. If the Southern Captain had exercised ordinary foresight, he would have been under weigh within the time at which it would have been possible for the Federal Government to have sent here another ship, after the news of his arrival at Southampton had reached Washington. The Nashville carries, we believe, but two guns, and the Tuscarora nine. The Yankee Captain accordingly anchors in Southampton waters. In this state of things the Nashv
The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Burnside Expedition. (search)
last shot we fired went directly over their quarter-deck, obliging every one in that vicinity to dodge it to save their heads. They took us for the Nashville, and that was the reason they did not stop at first. Yesterday the Florida and James Adger went in just beyond the range of Fort Sumter, at least two miles nearer than we had been before. The casemates of the fort could be counted with the naked eye, and the colors of the flags on Castle Pinckney and Fort Moultrie were castly distio says that they are building a ram at Charleston, and have been working on it night and day for some time, and expect to finish it in thirty days; that there are eight vessels there loaded with cotton, waiting to run out, and that when we and he Adger ran in yesterday, all thought "the Yankees were come, sure;" that crowds and crowds of ladies, as well as men, came down to the docks of the city to examine us through their glasses, and the greatest excitement prevalled throughout the city. He
The Daily Dispatch: March 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], Notes of the War. (search)
of Fernandina and Amelia Island, and of the river and town of St. Mary's I sailed from Port Royal on the last day of February, in the Wabash, and on the 2d inst. entered Cumberland Sound, by St. Andrew's Inlet, in the Mohican; Commander S. W. Goden, on board of which ship I have hoisted my flag. The fleet comprised the following vessels, sailing in the order in which they are named. The Ottown, Mohican, Accompanied by the Ellen,) Seminols, Pawnes, Pocahontas, Flag, Florida, James Adger, Blenville, Alabama, Keystone State, Seneca, Huron, Pembina, Isaac Smith, Penguin, Potemska, the armed cutter Henristts, the armed transport McClsllan, (the latter having on board the hattalion of marines under the command of Maj. Reynolds,) and the transports Empire City, Marion, Star of the South, Belvidere, Boston, George's Cresk, containing a brigade, under the command of Brig. Gen. Wright. We came to anchor in Cumberland Sound at half-past 10 on the morning of the 2d, to make an
The Daily Dispatch: April 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Bitter attack on Gen. McClellan. (search)
"We didn't know we were so close in shore," was the reply. "Send your captain aboard." The captain of the Oriental then came aboard, and after he left we heard that they were very much frightened, for our shot came all around them, and the last shot we fired went directly over their quarter-deck, obliging every one in that vicinity to dodge it to save their heads. They took us for the Nashville, and that was the reason they did not stop at first. Yesterday the Florida and James Adger went in just beyond the range of Fort Sumter, at least two miles nearer than we had been before. The casemates of the fort could be counted with the naked eye, and the colors of the flags on Castle Pinckney and Fort Moultrie were vastly distinguished without a glass. We saw two or three steamers and several sailing vessels in there. This morning just after daybreak, we discovered a chance close alongside. We took from it five contrabands, among whom was a woman. They left Charles
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