FORT MONROE, March 13.
All is quiet here this morning. The steamer Merrimac is afloat at the Norfolk Navy Yard and a large force of workmen is employed in repairing her. Serious damage was done to one of her prows and the forward part of the vessel was stove in. These are now being strengthened.
The people of Norfolk are said to be in a state of mingled rejoicing and fear.
Lieut. W. N. Jeffers is now in command of the Monitor.
All the newspaper correspondents at Fort Monroe, except the agent of the Associated Press, have been ordered away by Gen. Wool, for having failed to comply with his instructions regarding news. The Associated Press’ dispatches will hereafter be sent under the sanction of Gen. Wool.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, March 14, 1862, p. 1
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