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The Daily Dispatch: October 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], From the Border. (search)
. --She went into the Preble 16 feet, but the force of the current of the Mississippi took her stern round, and tore open the planks. The Preble then drifted stern on the bar, and there will rest her ribs. She fired fifteen times at the ram, hit her once, and that shot carried away her smokestacks, one of which was lost overboard. The concussion was so great, that the engines felt the effects of it. I never doubted but that she would be a success.--The frigate Richmond, twenty-two 9 inch Dahlgren guns, is hard and fast on the bar.--Our fleet opened fire on her. The Richmond fired several broadsides briskly. It was all Commodore Hollins desired, for every broadside shook her to such a degree that it buried her deeper in the sand. They had erected what Commodore Hollins called "custom houses," on the shore near the mouth of the river. A large quantity of timber, &c., was landed by them, and buildings nearly finished. "They were going to collect revenue," but Commodore Hollins say