BEFORE CORINTH, Miss.,
May 18.
The Mobile Advertiser
and Register contains the following:
PENSACOLA NAVY YARD,
May 10.
At 12 o’clock last night the Pensacola Navy Yard and the
Forts were set on fire and destroyed.
When the enemy discovered what was going on, Fort Pickens
opened a furious bombardment and kept it up during the conflagration, and
without doing damage to anybody. At
Pensacola all public property, excepting the Easton House, which was incapable
of being burnt, was destroyed; but movable Confederate property has been saved.
The railroad track leading out of the city towards
Montgomery was torn up this morning.
A Federal vessel, with a flag of truce, came up to the city,
demanding a surrender.
Major Balbe refused to comply with the demand, but as all
the military forces had left, he had no power to oppose.
The Federal officer replied they would occupy the city by
to-morrow, but that the inhabitants need not be alarmed.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, May 20, 1862, p. 1
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