There are rumors of a fight down at Pig's Point to-day; and
it is said our battery has torn the farthingale of the Harriet Lane pretty
extensively. The cannon was heard by persons not many miles east of the city.
These are the mutterings of the storm. It will burst some of these days.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 48
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