FORTRESS MONROE, March 13. – All is quiet here this morning.
The steamer Merrimac is at the Norfolk Navy Yard, and a
large force of workmen is employed in repairing her. Serious damage was done to one of her prongs
and the forward part of the vessel was stove in. These are now being strengthened. The people of Norfolk are said to be in a
state of mingled rejoicing and fear.
Lieut. Wm. Jeffers is now in command of the Monitor.
All the newspaper correspondents, at Fortress Monroe, except
the Agent of the Associated Press have been ordered away by General Wool for
having failed to comply with his instructions regarding news. The Associated Press despatches will
hereafter be sent under the sanction of General Wool.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 3
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