Friday, December 13, 2013

Washington, May 16 [1862].

Union prisoners from Richmond report a large number of families going South.  They say that Jeff. Davis had gone to Tuscaloosa, Ala.  The Union sentiment at Richmond was strong and increasing.

The Secretary of War has ordered the release of the rebel Colonel W. F. Baldwin, of Virginia, to be exchanged for Colonel Corcoran.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, May 19, 1862, p. 2

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