Tuesday, July 7, 2009

The news from the Shenandoah Valley indicates . . .

. . . that Jackson in concentrating his forces in the neighborhood of Mt. Jackson. He will probably fall back to Staunton, as Gen. Banks’ corps d’armee advances upon him, retarding our progress, however, by burning bridges.

– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 12, 1862, p. 2

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