Sunday, June 20, 2010

Further from New Orleans

FORTRESS MONROE, [April] 29

To E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War:

The following appears in the Richmond Dispatch of the 28th:

The fearful state of suspense in which this city has existed for several days has ended. – New Orleans is in possession of the enemy. It was evacuated by Gen. Lovell, who removed his forces to Camp Moore, on the Jackson Railroad.

(Signed:)

John E. Wool,
Major General.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 3

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