OPERATIONS AGAINST RICHMOND: Repulse of Our Gunboats Seen Miles Below the City; ATTACK ON FORT DARLING (5/18/1862)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 5/18/1862

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WASHINGTON, Saturday, May 17.

The following dispatch has-just been received at the War Department, (11 o'clock P.M.:)

WILLIAMSBURGH, May 17.

To Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War:

The gunboats Galena, Monitor, Aroostook, Naugatuck and Port Royal, were repulsed from Fort Darling, seven miles below Richmond, yesterday. A portion of them have returned to Jamestown Island, near this place, in James River.

Lieut. MORRIS, commanding the Port Royal, sent overland to me this morning for intelligence regarding the condition of the forts below the Island, and also to assist in burying the dead, which he brought down with him. Seventeen have been interred on the banks of the river, and there are a number of the wounded on board, including Lieut. MORRIS.

The 100-pound gun of the Naugatuck exploded on the first fire. (Signed)

DAVID CAMPBELL, Col. 5th Cavalry.

By authority G.B. McClellan.

OPERATIONS ON THE PENINSULA.

The Advance from Williamsburgh-Feeling of the Soldiers-State of the Crops-Conduct of the Soldiers-A Skirmish.

Correspondence of the New-York Times.

HEADQUARTERS SMITH's DIVISION, ENCAMPMENT ON

THE ROAD TO RICHMOND, 25 MILES FROM

WILLIAMSBURGH, Sunday Night, May 11, 1862.

Last Friday morning the advance guard of me grand army took up the line of march from Williamsburgh to a point further up the Peninsula. The morning was a beautiful one and before the sun gave us its first light Gen. SMITH's entire Division, with all its artillery, ambulances and baggage wagons, was this side of Fort Magruder, and all the immense fortifications of Williamsburgh. The army marched as one flushed with victory, It moved in solid strength, as if conscious that it possesses all needed resources to overcome whatever might oppose it. More than that; all the conversation of the soldiers was of the great battle through which they had just passed,

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Operations Against Richmond: Repulse of Our Gunboats Seven Miles Below the City – 2-3
Important from the South: Pensacola Evacuated by the Rebels – 3-4
Department of the Rappahannock: Inactivity and Its Results – 4
An Important Capture: A Large Portion of Jeff. Thompson’s Band Taken Prisoners – 4
Further Explanations from Mr. Russell – 4
A French View of the Dismissal of Mr. Russell – 4
The Coming Battle at Corinth – 4-5
A Deserter Shot – 5
The War in the Southwest: Gen. Halleck’s Army – 5
News from Washington: The Proclamation of Gen. Hunter – 6
From Gen. Halleck’s Army: The Expectations of the Rebels Regarding the Pending Battle – 7
From the Mississippi Flotilla: Arrival of Capt. Davis and Departure of Commodore Foote – 7-8
Editorial: The War and Its Lessons-The Uses of Adversity – 8-9
Editorial: Our Trophies of War – 9
A Myth About the Merrimac – 9
Editorial: Rebel Falsehoods Exposed – 9-10
Gen. Hunter’s Order – 10
Yellow Fever on the Southern Coast, and How to Avoid It – 10
Non-Intervention of France – 10
A Rumor and a Hint – 10
More Spies – 10
The Canal Department – 10