The Gunboats Beaten off at Fort Darling.
WASHINGTON, May 17.
The following has been received at the War Department:
WASHINGTON, May 17.
The gunboats Galena, Monitor, Arostook, Naugatuck and Port
Royal were repulsed from Fort Darling 7 miles below Richmond, yesterday.
A Portion of them have returned to Jamestown Island, near
this place in James River.
Seventeen of our dead have already been buried, and there
are numbers wounded aboard the vessels, including Lieut. Morris.
The 100-pound gun on the Naugatuck exploded the first fire.
(Signed)
DAVID CAMPBELL,
By authority of
GEN. McCLELLAN.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, May 20, 1862, p. 2
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