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The Daily Dispatch: October 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
From Norfolk. a Lage ship going to Newport News--over twenty sail in Hampton Roads, &c. [special correspondence of the Dispatch.] Norfolk, Oct. 18, 1861, 1 o'clock, P. M. A four-masted ship, supposed to be the Great Republic, is being towed up towards Newport News. A large three-masted steamer is now coming into the Roads. Over twenty sail of the enemy are in Hampton Roads to-day. The lower station reports them buoying off the channel towards Newport News.
The Daily Dispatch: October 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Army of the Potomac. (search)
Army of the Potomac. [our own correspondent.] Centreville, Oct. 18, 1861. As I informed you by telegraph, our army fell back from Fairfax on Tuesday night, between the hours of 12 and morning. Of course the first question that everybody asks is, why it was done? and to this I can only reply that our Generals, who have thus far conducted the campaign with entire success, deemed it expedient to do so. When we remember that our army is commanded by Johnston, the greatest General of the age, and by Beauregard, the most skillful engineer, and by Smith, a man of great ability and thorough training, we can well afford to accept expediency as a reason for any movement that may seem singular and uncalled for, by those who know nothing of the designs of the enemy. In saying this, I do not wish to be understood to say that the people should submit to be led blindly by these men, however skillful and great they may be, without having the privilege of criticising or discussing their