Tuesday, July 23, 2013

The Merrimac makes her Appearance.

FORT MONORE, May 4.

The Merrimac made her appearance beyond Sewall’s Point at 1 o’clock to-day. – She stood off the Point, and up to 4 o’clock has not changed her location.  She is not attended by other gunboats.


BALTIMORE, May 5.

The regular news letter from Old Point is received.  The Merrimac remained out till 4 o’clock on the 4th inst. and then disappeared beyond Sewall’s Point.  Since her last appearance she has had a ram twenty feet in length added to her bow.

The French minister at Washington, Mr. Mercier, arrived at Yorktown on Sunday morning in a special boat form Washington.  The Gasendi was to go for him last night.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, May 6, 1862, p. 1

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