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The Daily Dispatch: June 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], Mine of opals. (search)
Fort Pickens. --The Pensacola correspondent of the Mobile Evening News writes, June 14, as follows: Last evening, about 8 o'clock, a man was picked up on the beach near Barrancas, perfectly naked, who gave an account of himself thus: He, as usual, went in to bathe near Fort Pickens, and venturing too far, was forced by the current and winds into the sheet of deep water that separates ts like a fellow that has been hard worked. The flags of the squadron, as well as that in Fort Pickens, have been at half-mast all day. At noon a salute was fired from Fort Pickens. The cause we Fort Pickens. The cause we know not. It created some excitement among the troops stationed at Pensacola. Within the last few days, nearly all the sand-bags which caused so much apparent labor to mount, have been taken off the parapet of Fort Pickens. The addition of this sand bag story probably rendered the fort too hot, as it cut off the breeze entirely, and hence its removal. A spy was taken at the yard last ni
The Daily Dispatch: June 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
From Pensacola. --A letter received at this office from Pensacola, dated June 14, says: "There were near ten thousand of us who en vied the Georgia and Louisiana Regiments and Zouave Battalion their superior fortune in being ordered to the field of glory in Virginia. Many are still hoping to follow them at an early day. "As an indication of our health — since we left home, over two months since, the regiment has lost but one member by death.--There are rumors of yellow fever in Fort Pickens; but whether true or not, I cannot say."