Private Navy Department             June 3d 1862  My Dear Flag Officer I have yours of the 25th May. I noticed in the papers the approach i...

Navy Department  May 12 1862  Flag Officer S. F. Dupont Port Royal. My Dear Sir: Now things are breaking up entirely in Virginia we are rea...

We learn from Gen. Bragg that the enemy did not retire far on the 2d inst., but remain still in the vicinity of Murfreesborough. He says, h...

I embarked at 10 A.M. on board a small steamer to visit Drewry's Bluff on the James River, the scene of the repulse of the ironclads Mo...

The enemy's gun-boats, Monitor, Galena, etc. are at Drewry's Bluff, eight miles below the city, shelling our batteries, and our bat...

NEW YORK, May 20. The following was written on board the Galena, yesterday morning.   We ran up to Watches Bluff where we found the r...

Private   Head-Quarters, Army of the Potomac Camp Winfield Scott, April 20 1862 His Excellency The   President My dear Sir I ...

WASHINGTON, May 19. No official dispatch has been received from Com. Goldsboro about the expedition up James River.   It comprised the ...

PHILADELPHIA, May 19. The Bulletin contains the following additional from Fortress Monroe: The repulse of the gunboats is generall...

The Gunboats Beaten off at Fort Darling. WASHINGTON, May 17. The following has been received at the War Department: WASHINGTON,...

It is unofficially stated that Com. Goldsborough has taken possession of the batteries on James river, two of which were silenced by the Ga...

NEW YORK, May 13. The advance of the iron-clad gunboat Galena, up the James river, created the utmost consternation in Petersburg.   Th...

Sewall’s Point Evacuated. A NAVAL FIGHT ANTICIPATED. Active Movements in the Mountain Department. Tremendous Destruction of Pro...

BALTIMORE, May 9. The special correspondent of the American sends the following relative to affairs in Hampton Roads and the Peninsula...

FORT MONROE, May 8, A. M. The iron-clad ship-of-war Galena, and gunboats Arostook and Port Royal started up the James River this mornin...

GUNBOAT GALENA, Sunday, May 11. DEAR BROTHER – I suppose by this time you have heard of the Galena leaving Hampton Roads.   I was glad of i...

WASHINGTON, May 19. – No official dispatch has been received from Com. Goldsboro about the expedition up James River, comprised of the steam...

NEW YORK, May 20. – The following was written on board the Galena: Yesterday morning we were up to Watch’s Bluff, where we found the river ...

WASHINGTON, May 20. – A private letter from an officer of one of the flotilla speaking of the recent engagement says the Galena, iron clad, ...

The Gunboats Beaten off at Fort Darling – Seventeen killed on board the Flotilla – the Naugatuck’s 100 pounder Burst. WASHINGTON, May 17. ...