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The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
twenty minutes past one,) broke on the air, and a tug started from Newport News, while at the same time two others left Old Point, taking the channel inside Hampton bar. Steadily, with a grim and ominous silence, the Virginia glides through the watethe 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 Sehe assistance of the Minnesota, and she also got aground, and a steam frigate, supposed to be the Roanoke, put off from Old Point with the same intention, it is supposed: but seeing the sad havoc which the Virginia was playing with the Federal vessels, she put back to Old Point. Casualties. The Virginia had two men killed and some five or six wounded. A shot entered the porthole and struck the gun on the mixable, knocking off a piece nine inches long..This disabled the gun, which was