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Rebel Loss As Roanoke Island

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
February
Year
1862
Copyright
Public Domain
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Fertresa Monroe, Fub,JG, Tho Noifülk Day B'iuk says; -Tha total loas at üi;u:!;u Ijlund as 8 killed and 30 WQunded, two of tho vvourd_'d dying subsequeotly. The killed ure ü. J. Wise, Capt. Eobt, Coies, Liuüt. Selden, and Beven privates. It also saj's that 2,500 prisoDpra were taken, who will prob.ibiy bö paroled or tïxchanged. A gentlcmuu from Cunituck Sound yesterd.iy reporta that our trunboats arrivud at the canal ïiiursd-iy, nud oommenoed firing on thu rebels engagod in dodtroying tbo canal. -■ tdiP The Sawyer gun, wtuoh burst ut Newport News, noar Fortresa Mooroe, tl;e other day, killing two of' the gunners and serioutsly wouoding loar others, was not the great Ilo'lmitn gun, called tho " Floyd," " Big Thundür," &c. The Ilodmun gun is a 15-incU Uoluinbiad. The Sawyer gun waai r.fled eannon with a boro of the sizo ot an ordinary twenty-four pouoder. - Tho balls weighed forty pounda, owing to their elongation. Tlie gun hSu rifled to tbrow the Sawyer shell, was callud the Sawyer gun Hy-T No official inforiuation lus booa reecived ot' the occupatiou of Suvannab, thou;h whea tho guuboat Couoectioui lcft Port lloyal, a few days since, it wai cspooted to tako plaoe immodiatoly.

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Old News
Michigan Argus