BALTIMORE, Feb. 14.
Parties who came by the Old Point boat say it was reported in Norfolk, yesterday, that Ft. Donelson had been captured. Our dispatches from Fort Monroe make no allusion to it.
A reliable passenger from Old Point says some workmen, from the city works at Richmond, say they left there for want of work. So great was the scarcity of iron and coal that the works there were being suspended. Coal was enormously high.
The men say there are few, if any, cannon left at Richmond, all having been sent away from time to time to other points. Very few of the defenses there have any cannon mounted.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, February 17, 1862, p. 1
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