FT. MONROE, Feb. 10.
News by the flag of truce states that our troops landed at Roanoke Island yesterday p.m.
No particulars are given, but it is understood that the island was taken.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 10.
The Inquirer of this city has a dispatch dated Ft. Monroe, last night, which reports the landing of the Federals at Roanoke Island.
Three rebel gun-boats were sunk and two captured – one of them the flag ship. The firemen on board the steamboat, reported that the stars and stripes could be seen over the batteries, from Elizabeth City.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 11.
The Baltimore Clipper publishes an extra stating that Roanoke Island was captured after three days fighting. Two rebel gun-boats were captured and the rest were sunk or scattered.
The People of Norfolk and Portsmouth are panic stricken. The News is confirmed by passengers, by Fortress Monroe.
NEW YORK, Feb. 11.
A Fort Monroe letter of the 9th states that the bombardment of Roanoke Island continued. – Yesterday about noon Com. Lynd got his rebel flotilla under weigh, and came down Carrituck Sound to assist Wise on the Island. The federal gun-boats at 5 p.m. on the 8th had sunk three and captured two – one of which had the Commodore’s pennant – and dispersed the rest of the rebel gun-boats in every direction. Firing ceased at dark, but recommenced with increased vigor in the morning until 8 o’clock, when it was supposed the rebels surrendered. It was rumored at Norfolk on the morning of the 9th, that eight regiments had been recently sent to Roanoke Island, and as there was no chance of escape they are all probably captured. The rebels acknowledge that the only obstacles of importance to retard Burnside’s march upon Norfolk are swamps, marshes and sickness.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, February 12, 1862, p. 1
News by the flag of truce states that our troops landed at Roanoke Island yesterday p.m.
No particulars are given, but it is understood that the island was taken.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 10.
The Inquirer of this city has a dispatch dated Ft. Monroe, last night, which reports the landing of the Federals at Roanoke Island.
Three rebel gun-boats were sunk and two captured – one of them the flag ship. The firemen on board the steamboat, reported that the stars and stripes could be seen over the batteries, from Elizabeth City.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 11.
The Baltimore Clipper publishes an extra stating that Roanoke Island was captured after three days fighting. Two rebel gun-boats were captured and the rest were sunk or scattered.
The People of Norfolk and Portsmouth are panic stricken. The News is confirmed by passengers, by Fortress Monroe.
NEW YORK, Feb. 11.
A Fort Monroe letter of the 9th states that the bombardment of Roanoke Island continued. – Yesterday about noon Com. Lynd got his rebel flotilla under weigh, and came down Carrituck Sound to assist Wise on the Island. The federal gun-boats at 5 p.m. on the 8th had sunk three and captured two – one of which had the Commodore’s pennant – and dispersed the rest of the rebel gun-boats in every direction. Firing ceased at dark, but recommenced with increased vigor in the morning until 8 o’clock, when it was supposed the rebels surrendered. It was rumored at Norfolk on the morning of the 9th, that eight regiments had been recently sent to Roanoke Island, and as there was no chance of escape they are all probably captured. The rebels acknowledge that the only obstacles of importance to retard Burnside’s march upon Norfolk are swamps, marshes and sickness.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, February 12, 1862, p. 1
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