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The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
nnie muskets, fired into her, and killed several of their own men and slightly wounded in the arm Mr. John Hopkins, one of our plicts, attached to the Beaufort. While the Virginia was engaged with the Congress, with her how gun she poured broadside after broadside into the shore batteries of the enemy at Newport News. One discharge from the bow-gun of the Virginia, says of the priestess, capsized two of the guns of the Congress, willing of her crow and taking off the head of a Lieut. Smith, and literally tore the ship to pieces. The Minnesota and it Lawrence come up. While the engagement was going on between the two frigates and the Virginia, the enemy's steam frigate Minnesota put out from Old Point to their assistance. She laid well ever towards Newport News, but not entirely out of the range of our batteries on Sewell's Point, which opened on her, with what effect we are unable to say, but she replied to them without any damage whatever. The Minnesota got agr