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The Daily Dispatch: may 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
pointed directly at them, together with the artillery close at hand, silently awaiting their landing. Discretion on their part, at least in this instance, proved the better part of valor; for had they but set their foot upon the shore, not a man of them would have been left to tell the tale.--This is the first attempt on their part at landing in this section, and for their own good they had better let it be their last. Our forces in Norfolk were increased this morning by the arrival of six companies from the counties of Isle of Wight, Surry and Nansemond. They are all men of metal, and trained to the use of fire-arms from their infancy. They fully expected to be engaged in battle this morning, and were sadly disappointed in not being able to do so. More hereafter, as I become in possession of reliable news. All is quiet and calm this morning — we are not alarmed nor fear anything in the way of fighting for our rights, which ought and must be guaranteed to us. Powder.