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The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Defences of James river. (search)
ore, which in their turn are protected by batteries farther in their rear. In addition to these, iron-plated vessels or rafts should be speedily built, to aid in the river defence.--There is a vast quantity of old iron among housekeepers in the city and country, which would be cheerfully contributed to such a purpose. We call the attention of the city authorities to this fact. We ask the special attention of our military and civil authorities to the following extracts from an article in Blackwood's Magazine, December, 1859 on the attack of the batteries of the Peiho, by the British. They show what can be effected against gunboats when not allowed to run by and en lade batteries: Apart from these fortifications three barriers had been constructed where the channel was narrowest, and admirably calculated to detain vessels immediately under the fire of the works. The barriers were three in number. The first extended across the channel, at an elbow where the curvature of th