FORT MONROE, May 6.
The flag of truce which went up James river yesterday
morning to receive released prisoners, returned to-day, not having accomplished
its object. This is the third time Gen.
Wool has been deceived about the release of these prisoners.
The Jamestown and Yorktown passed down the river, past the
flag of truce, at half past one this morning, bound for Norfolk.
The gunboat Teaser came alongside yesterday P. M., to
ascertain the object of the flag of truce.
The Teaser is armed with a 100-pounder Parrott gun. All the officers of the Teaser, with one
exception were drunk.
A dispatch was received here this morning from Newport News,
that the Merrimac was in sight. The Monitor,
&c., all got ready but the Merrimac has not yet been seen here.
– Published in The
Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, May 8, 1862, p.
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