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The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
ce retreated towards Shelbyville on the night of the 11th and the means of crossing Luck river are destroyed. This postpones the expected engagement. At Fort McAllister the Montank was struck with solid shot 70 times, and was lifted clear out of the water at the bow by the explosion of a torpedo, but not injured. The action iles east of Paris Ky. A forage train was attacked by fifty guerillas who were beaten off by the teamsters and the guard. Reinforcements have been sent. Fort McAllister. --The Herald publishes a "correspondence" of about ten about the bombardment of Fort McAllister, &c. It says its capture was not the object of the expedFort McAllister, &c. It says its capture was not the object of the expedition. The Fort is of "no consequence." The object was to last the strength and capacity of the and to train the gunners. Success is due as much to Commander Worden as to the qualities of the Monitors. "The time is not far distant when our iron-clads will give such a report of themselves as will be heard at the ends of the eart
The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
The iron-clads. The previous and unsuccessful attack of the iron-clads upon Fort McAllister, and interesting account of which appeared in this paper a few days ago, plainly shows that these monsters are not as invincible as the Yankees have boasted. If they came off second best in an assault upon Fort McAllister, what is likely to be their success in an attack upon Charleston? We have always regarded the Yankee gunboats as humbugs; great cry and little wool. Richmond and Vicksburg have as the Yankees have boasted. If they came off second best in an assault upon Fort McAllister, what is likely to be their success in an attack upon Charleston? We have always regarded the Yankee gunboats as humbugs; great cry and little wool. Richmond and Vicksburg have the honor of exploding the chimeras of gunboat invincibility, and we hope that Charleston will give a concluding lesson, such as will humble Yankee conceit upon the waters as thoroughly as it has been lowered upon the land.