FORT MONROE, April 15 – 8:40 P.M.
Nothing has occurred since my dispatch this morning, to disturb the quiet. The fine weather is very favorable to the operations at Yorktown, and it is probable that Gen. McClellan will soon be able to open his batteries at the fortifications of the enemy.
The French Minister honored me with a visit this morning. He has gone to Norfolk, and will go to Richmond. On entering the fort, I gave him a salute of thirteen guns.
(Signed,) JNO. E. WOOL, Maj. Gen.
The Union and Lincoln guns were fired to-day to try their range. The shot from the former fell a short distance of Sewall’s Point.
A flag of truce for Norfolk to-day brought down two ladies; also the sword of the captain of the French war vessel Pronos, which was wrecked on the North Carolina coast.
A rumor was brought from Norfolk, which was current there, that Gen. Buell had been killed.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 17, 1862, p. 1
Nothing has occurred since my dispatch this morning, to disturb the quiet. The fine weather is very favorable to the operations at Yorktown, and it is probable that Gen. McClellan will soon be able to open his batteries at the fortifications of the enemy.
The French Minister honored me with a visit this morning. He has gone to Norfolk, and will go to Richmond. On entering the fort, I gave him a salute of thirteen guns.
(Signed,) JNO. E. WOOL, Maj. Gen.
The Union and Lincoln guns were fired to-day to try their range. The shot from the former fell a short distance of Sewall’s Point.
A flag of truce for Norfolk to-day brought down two ladies; also the sword of the captain of the French war vessel Pronos, which was wrecked on the North Carolina coast.
A rumor was brought from Norfolk, which was current there, that Gen. Buell had been killed.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 17, 1862, p. 1
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