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The Daily Dispatch: September 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ran away (search)
Our correspondence. heavy firing in the distance — Point Comfort — the Rip-Raps-- Amusements — the steamer Merrimac, &c. Norfolk, Sept. 12, 1861. Many persons residing in the city say they heard the firing of guns from below last evening, and also at an early hour this morning. It is believed that there was a salute of some kind last evening at Old Point, a name even your most distant readers will understand to be almost synonymous with Fortress Monroe; and there was prhis city, and when the weather is favorable for the communication of sound, it can be heard at a much greater distance. Old Point is distant from this city — air line — only eleven miles. It has been stated to be sixteen miles. The name Point Comfort was given to this noted location in 1607, "on account of the good channel and safe anchorage it afforded," and the word "old" distinguishes it from New Point Comfort. Between Old Point and Sewell's Point, and opposite, (eastwardly,) t