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The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
errimac again opened on us, although we had a peak to show that we were out of action. After having fired several shells into us, she left us and engaged the Minnesota and the shore batteries, after which, Lieutenant Pendergast states, the wounded were taken ashore in small boats, the ship having been on fire from the beginning of the action from hot shot fired by the Merrimac. He reports the death of the following officers: Lieut. Jos. B. Smith, Acting Master Thos. Moore, and Pilot Wm. Rhodes. Report of the Commander of the St. Lawrence. The following extract from the report of Commander Purviance, of the United States frigate St. Lawrence, in regard to the action with the rebel flotilla at Hampton Roads will prove interesting: At half-past 8 o'clock we got under way in tow of the Cambridge, and when abreast of the rebel battery at Sewell's Point the battery opened fire, one of the shells exploding under the fore foot of the St. Lawrence, doing, however, no ma