FORT MONROE, April 27.
A boat containing four black men and one white man arrived here this morning from Portsmouth. They report that the Merrimack will come out soon.
A dispatch in yesterday’s Richmond papers received by the flag of truce, dated Mobile, Friday, says that the Union gunboats passed Forts Jackson and St. Philip at 4 o’clock Thursday morning, and at 1 p.m. the same day were before New Orleans. A rumor was current in Norfolk last night, that New Orleans has surrendered.
But few troops were at Norfolk or in the vicinity. It was rumored that Com. Tatnall had been removed from command of the Merrimac.
It is stated by contrabands that the most intense excitement exists around Norfolk, and they have great fear of an attack by Burnside. Nearly all the troops have gone to South Mills to repel any advance he might make.
Contrabands state that the new prow on the Merrimac is 12 feet long, of wrought iron and steel pointed.
Many citizens of Norfolk are leaving the city.
The fall of New Orleans is conceded by everyone.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, April 29, 1862, p. 1
A boat containing four black men and one white man arrived here this morning from Portsmouth. They report that the Merrimack will come out soon.
A dispatch in yesterday’s Richmond papers received by the flag of truce, dated Mobile, Friday, says that the Union gunboats passed Forts Jackson and St. Philip at 4 o’clock Thursday morning, and at 1 p.m. the same day were before New Orleans. A rumor was current in Norfolk last night, that New Orleans has surrendered.
But few troops were at Norfolk or in the vicinity. It was rumored that Com. Tatnall had been removed from command of the Merrimac.
It is stated by contrabands that the most intense excitement exists around Norfolk, and they have great fear of an attack by Burnside. Nearly all the troops have gone to South Mills to repel any advance he might make.
Contrabands state that the new prow on the Merrimac is 12 feet long, of wrought iron and steel pointed.
Many citizens of Norfolk are leaving the city.
The fall of New Orleans is conceded by everyone.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, April 29, 1862, p. 1
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