From the Richmond Dispatch, 3/1/1881, p. 3, c. 4

Death from Paralysis – The Monitor Fleet in James River.
[Special telegram to the Dispatch.]

NORFOLK, February 28. – James Saunders, an old citizen of Norfolk, died from paralysis yesterday.

The United States steamer Fortune goes up to Lower Brandon to-morrow to tow the monitor fleet to City Point, where the naval authorities have established a permanent fresh-water anchorage.

 

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