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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 106 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc . 118 .-fight at the passes. (search)
Doc. 118.-fight at the passes.
A correspondent of the New-York Herald gives the following account of the fight:
United States flagship Hartford, head of the passes, Mississippi River, April 4, 1862.
Since my last letter I have been engaged in voyaging between this ship and those on the bar at South-west Pass, watching with interest the efforts which have been made to get the heavy draught vessels into the river.
The Mississippi, Iroquois, and Oneida have come in, but the Pensacola is still outside, trying to come up. I think a little more tugging will bring her in also.
The Connecticut is here with a meagre mail for us; but she brings us intelligence of the sad disasters in Hampton Roads, which we were afraid at first was of a more doleful character.
To-day we have been eye-witnesses of a start little brush between the gunboat Kineo and the flag-ship of the rebel flotilla.
The scene of the skirmish was a few miles above us, and most of the firing could be witnessed from
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 123 (search)
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119.-fight near Yorktown, Va. April 4th, 1862.
The following is an account of the advance from Fortress Monroe and the fight near Yorktown:
Locust hill., in camp, five miles from Fortress Monroe, April 3, 1862.
The order for the advance was given to-day.
It made a lively and exciting stir in the different camps.
From the moment of pitching tents here an order to this effect has been impatiently looked for and desired.
There was not a soldier that was not delighted at the moonlight.
Underlying the picture is that too deep for utterance.
In coarse woolen blankets lie patriots, heroes, martyrs, true men. These are no cowards; devotion to country has brought them here.
Cockletown, nine miles beyond Big Bethel, April 4, 1862.
We have seen some of the rebel forces, and they have fled before us. The Stars and Stripes have been hoisted, and are floating over rebel fortifications where the flag of disunion has long waved in triumph its ignominious folds.
But I mu