FORT MONORE, Jan. 28. – The only incident of news yesterday,
was the arrival of the boat containing fifteen contrabands from Norfolk. They report that the Merrimac was floated out
of the Dry Dock On Saturday, and was to make her trial trip on Sunday. She mounted 10 inch rifle cannons, and the
people were jubilant in the belief that she could sink the whole fleet in
Hampton Roads.
Letters from Port Royal indicate an early attack on Savannah
by General Sherman and Com. Dupont.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 1, 1862, p. 2
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