FORT MONROE, March 10.
All papers belonging to the frigate Cumberland are in her, and it is impossible to obtain a correct list of killed, wounded and lost.
Lieut. Sefridge of the Cumberland has been ordered to command the Monitor.
A flag of truce was sent to Craney Island to-day.
Rebel officers say the Merrimac, or as they call her the Virginia, was damaged, but nothing serious. They admit their loss to be four killed and several wounded on her.
Capt. Buchanan who commanded, was seriously wounded in Saturday’s fight.
Capt. Jones commanded her on Sunday.
The Yorktown received a shot in her boiler.
The Norfolk Day Book of yesterday gives a glowing account of the affair and gives the total rebel loss 9 killed and 12 wounded.
Twenty-three prisoners arrived at Norfolk, taken from the Congress
The Day Book also says the Monitor was seriously injured, and some of our gunboats sank, and reports our loss from 600 to 1200. It says having accomplished the object of the expedition and having no material to work upon, our vessels returned to the Navy Yard, awaiting another opportunity.
FORT MONROE, March 11.
The Beaufort correspondent of the Day Book says that the Nashville is now lying at Morehead City.
One hundred vessels are reported at Hatteras, supposed to contain reinforcements for Gen. Burnside.
Ocracoke Inlet is said to be blockaded up with stone vessels.
Virginia has been called upon for 40,000 additional troops.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, March 13, 1862, p. 2
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