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The Daily Dispatch: September 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
linter of the main-mast; her stern was grazed, and one of her boats alongside had its bow carried away. The Savannah was lying off, or even beyond, Newport News.--The point might have been reached with ease by the rebel's gun. Anticipating a shot, several barrels of gunpowder not in the fire-proof magazine, were hurried thither. The management of the secession gun was admirable. Many of our own shots went very near the steamer. Some half-dozen shots were fired from the rifled cannon, (Sawyer's 6 inch,) and from the Columbiad. The brisk exchange of shots, the crowd of eager spectators (who even betted on the results of the shots) the gunners working at the guns, the men carrying powder barrels, formed a stirring scene. Affairs at Manassas. "Se de Kay," writing to the Louisville Courier from Camp Bartow, near Manassas, under date of August 23, says: A week of chill rain storms has served to remind us not only of the personal discomforts of camp life. but of the ra