NEWS FROM WASHINGTON: Gen. Sherman’s Report of Recent Operations at Port Royal; The Charleston Blockade Run by a Rebel Steamer (01/09/1862)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 1/9/1862

[Homer_J_Simpson]

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Jan. 8.

THE RECENT FIGHT AT PORT ROYAL.

The following letter has been received at the Adjutant-General's office, from Brig.-Gen. SHERMAN, dated: HEADQUARTERS G.C., PORT ROYAL, S.C., Jan. 2, 1862.

SIR: As the Vanderbilt leaves to-morrow, I deem it proper to inclose to you a letter of instructions to Gen. STEVENS, commanding the Second Brigade of this division, of Dec. 30.

The simple object of this dash was to destroy the batteries which the enemy appeared to have erected on the Coosaw River, for the obstruction of the navigation and the passage of that stream, and also to punish him for the insult in firing into the steamer Mayflower on her recent passage through that stream, for the purpose of sounding the depth of the channel. The affair succeeded perfectly, and the enemy were driven out of their batteries, their batteries demolished, and the property found there brought away or destroyed, with little or no loss of life on our side. After the object of the movement was executed, Gen. STEVENS, agreeably to his instructions, returned to Port Royal Island. As soon as his report reaches me it will be forwarded.

The Norfolk Day Book, of Monday, says that on Sunday a saw-mill in the Norfolk Navy-yard was fired by an incendiary. It was, however, extinguished with little damage.

The residence and out-houses of FAYETTE MCMULLEN, in Wythe County, Va., were destroyed by fire on Wednesday morning.

Judge HEMPHILL, Ex-Senator in the Congress of the United States, and since a member of the Confederate Congress, died at Richmond Saturday morning.

Nobody will come forward to take the office of Collector of the War Tax in the Norfolk District, and H.Y. GARNETT, Chief Collector of the War Tax in Virginia, in a formal advertisement,

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The Blockade Runner is a great place to stay on the NC coast.

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News from Washington: Gen. Sherman’s Report on Recent Operations at Port Royal – 2-3
The Burnside Expedition: Our Annapolis Correspondence – 3
Important from Western Virginia: Two More Victories Over the Rebels – 3
The Sanitary Commission: A Report to the Secretary of War of the Operations of the Commission – 3-7
Editorial: The Scheme for a National Currency – 7-8
Utah Applying – 8
More Western Virginia Tactics – 8
Military Keys – 8
Rebel Testimony to the Efficiency of the Blockade – 8
What Has Been Done for the Health of the Army – 8
Marine Disaster-Loss of the Edward M. Clark with All on Board – 8

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[higgmeister]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[higgmeister]

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