NEW YORK, May 15.
A Fort Monroe letter of the 13th says the deserters, who are
constantly coming in, agree in their statements that the evacuation of Richmond
is rapidly progressing, and that the effort of the retreating rebels is merely
to hold back Gen. McClellan, so as to obtain time to remove all their
stores. They also say that the
destruction of the city by fire is threatened, and that it will require the utmost
efforts on the part of the citizens to prevent its consummation. That the evacuation is now progressing there
is no manner of doubt, and the government archives are being conveyed south to
return to their former allegiance.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, May 16, 1862, p. 1
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